Background
He was the son of General Roswell Randall and Harriet (Stephens) Randall, of Shelburne, Vermont.
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Henry Stephens
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Union College.
Career
He came as a young boy from Madison County, New York to Cortland. He wrote many articles for agricultural periodicals, and Sheep Husbandry, the "sheepman"s bible" of the times. On February 4, 1834, Randall married in Auburn, New York, Jane Rebecca Polhemus, the daughter of Review
Henry Polhemus and Jane (Anderson) Polhemus.
They had a son, Roswell Stephens Randall (born November 8, 1834) who married Mary Forby, of Albany, New New York Henry"s son Francis died on June 29, 1844, aged 21 months.
In November 1849, he ran for Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket but was defeated by Whig Christopher Morgan. He was Secretary of State of New York from 1852 to 1853, elected in November 1851.
Randall wrote The of Thomas Jefferson, published in three volumes in 1858, considered the most complete and authoritative biography ever written on Jefferson, because he was the only biographer permitted to interview Jefferson’s immediate family.
He was buried at the Cortland Rural Cemetery.
Membership
Randall was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. And a member of the New York State Assembly (Cortland Company) in 1871.
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Democratic party