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Samuel Sidwell Randall was born on May 27, 1809 at Norwich, Chenango County, New York, the son of Perez and Betsey (Edmunds) Randall. Henry Stephens Randall was his cousin.
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Samuel Sidwell Randall
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He was prepared for college at the Oxford Academy and entered Hamilton College in 1824, but he withdrew at the end of his sophomore year to take up the study of law in a law office at Norwich.
Career
Upon his admission to the bar in 1830 he established himself in practice in his native town.
In May 1837 he was appointed by the secretary of state, then ex officio state superintendent of common schools, as a clerk in the department of common schools. In 1841 he became general deputy superintendent and held this office until 1846, serving for a time within this period as acting superintendent when the office of secretary of state was vacant.
He was a frequent contributor to the District School Journal and for a time its editor. His retirement from the department in 1846 was due to ill health. He spent some time in the South lecturing upon the subject of education but he was recalled to his former position in 1849 and continued in it until January 1, 1852, when he left to take an appointment in the War Department at Washington.
In 1851 the New York legislature had authorized the governor to appoint a commissioner to embody in a single act and to report to the legislature a common-school code for the state. Randall received this appointment and made his report on January 1, 1852, urging that the office of state superintendent be separated from that of secretary of state; that a permanent tax be substituted for the fixed sum appropriated for the support of common schools, and that the office of county superintendent be restored. The first recommendation was adopted in 1854, the third in 1856, and the second in 1867. Randall held the Washington appointment until November 1853, when he became superintendent of the public schools of Brooklyn. He remained as superintendent for a few weeks and in January 1854 returned to the state service for a third time.
Shortly thereafter the supervision of common schools was separated from the office of secretary of state and Randall became a candidate for the new office of state superintendent of public instruction. He was defeated by Victor M. Rice. He aided the new superintendent in organizing his department and withdrew in the summer of 1854 to become superintendent of the public schools in the city of New York. He held this position until June 1, 1870, when he resigned on account of failing health. He died on June 3, 1881.
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He wielded a strong influence upon the administration of the common-school system. The range of his intellectual interests may be understood from the following partial list of his published works: A Digest of the Common School System of the State of New York (1844); Mental and Moral Culture and Popular Education (1844); The Common School System of the State of New York (1851); History of the State of New York (1870); History of the Common School System of the State of New York (1871).
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History of the Common School System of the State of New York: From Its Origin in 1795, to the Present Time; Including the Various City and Other ... of 1821, 1832, and 1840 (Classic Reprint)
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Mental and Moral Culture, and Popular Education (Classic Reprint)
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-Class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book, Containing the Only Essential Principles of Elocution, Directions for ... with Numerous Pieces for Reading and Decla
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The Common School System of the State of New York: Comprising the Several General Laws Relating to Common Schools, to Which Is Prefixed a Historical ... Progress and Present Outline of the System
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The American Journal of Education and College Review; Volume 1
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The Common School System of the State of New York: Comprising the Several General Laws Relating to Common Schools, Together with Full Expositions, ... of the Origin, Progress and Present Outl
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History of the State of New York: For the Use of Common Schools, Academies, Normal and High Schools, and Other Seminaries of Instruction
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First Principles of Popular Education and Public Instruction
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American Journal of Education, for the Year 1830, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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History of the Common School System of the State of New York: From Its Origin in 1795, to the Present Time; Including the Various City and Other ... of 1821, 1832, and 1840 (Classic Reprint)
Connections
His first wife was Lucy Ann Breed, whom he married on October 29, 1829. His second wife was Sarah Hubbell, by whom he had four children.
