John Randolph (1773–1833)
John Randolph—known as John Randolph of Roanoke—was born on 2 June 1773 at Cawsons, the Prince George County, Virginia, home of his maternal grandfather. A planter/landowner and slaveholder who traced his lineage to Pocahontas, Randolph won election to Congress at the age of twenty-five.
David Johnson, John Randolph of Roanoke (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
"John Randolph." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310005081/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=b47b2045. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023.
Nicholas Wood, "John Randolph of Roanoke and the Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 120, Number 2 (2012), 106–43.
Whittington, Keith E. "Chase Impeachment." Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by David S. Tanenhaus, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp. 288–289. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3241200177/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=02835758. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023.
John Randolph at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
John Randolph at Find a Grave.