was there a president named randolph
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President John Hancock Below are the first 14 presidents of the United States. 1  1. Peyton Randolph (Sept. 5, 1774 – Oct. 22, 1774), (May 10, 1775 – May 24, 1775)When delegates voted in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, they elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the territory known as the United States. Randolph was a planter and public official from the colony of Virginia.
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- He was given two tiger cubs while he was president. William Harrison: Harrison had a billy goat at the White House. A cow named Sukey; John Tyler: Two Italian Wolfhounds; A Greyhound dog named Le Beau; A canary called Johnny Ty; A horse named General; James Polk : Zachary Taylor: An old horse named Whitey.
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- President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth, Vt., on July 4, 1872. He is the only president born on July 4; however, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth of July. One lucky Philadelphian purchased a $4 picture at a flea market.
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President Thomas Jefferson Jefferson stepped down from his position, believing that the government should have someone with military experience in charge while engaged in a war, and General Thomas Nelson assumed his office. In 1779, Jefferson served as Governor of Virginia, during which time he composed the bill which would become the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom.
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USS Randolph (CVA-15) Photographed from a Miami floatplane. USS Randolph after her SCB-27A modernization. USS Randolph (CV/CVA/CVS-15) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy . The second US Navy ship to bear the name, she was named for Peyton Randolph , president of the First Continental Congress . Randolph was commissioned in October 1944, and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations , earning three battle stars .
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- How popular is Randolph? Randolph is a very prominent first name for males (#366 out of 1220, Top 30%) and also a very prominent last name for both adults and children (#792 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 u.s. demographics) Randolph reached its top rank of #180 in the U.S. in the 1950s, but is not ranked currently.
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99 Fun Facts about U.S. Presidents As of June 2014, the most common first name of a U.S President is  James. Six presidents were named James: Madison, Monroe, Polk,  Garfield, Buchanan and Carter.
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- Before his inauguration on March 4, 1801, President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis, a 29-year-old career officer in the U.S. Army, to join him in the White House as his personal secretary. Jefferson knew Lewis and Lewis's family, as they were neighbors of his Monticello, Virginia, estate.
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- Early Life. A. Philip Randolph was born Asa Philip Randolph on April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida. He was the second son of James Randolph, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Elizabeth, both of whom were staunch supporters of equal rights for African Americans.arly Life. A. Philip Randolph was born Asa Philip Randolph on April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida. He was the second son of James Randolph, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Elizabeth, both of whom were staunch supporters of equal rights for African Americans.
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Senate Leaders Henry Cabot Lodge Senate Leader, Presidential Foe Shortly after Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration in 1913, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, an author and a former editor of scholarly journals, reportedly approached the new president, introduced himself, and mentioned that the two politicians had met once before at a college commencement.
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- Coolidge's mother's maiden name was Moor and in Europe the name Moor was given to all blacks just as Negro was used in America. Sixth on our list is Dwight David Eisenhower who served from 1953 to 1961, the 34th president. Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover was a mullato woman making Eisenhower part black Last on the list is our current President that is mixed race. Barrack Hussein Obama has a black father.
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Find the perfect name with our expert baby name toolsâFree! Origin of the name Randolph: The use of the name was further reinforced by the Norman introduction of the Germanic cognate Randolph after the Conquest. From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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Oral History Interview with Dr. Raymond W. Miller Jim is the one man and President Truman, if he -- I don't know if he is able to or not, but Jim Webb could definitely tell you how. Now to the best of my knowledge and belief this is the story. I had known Henry Bennett personally since 1936. Henry Bennett was the president of the Oklahoma land grant college.
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What does Randolph mean? Randolph [ran-dolph] as a boys' name is pronounced RAN-dolf. It is of Old German origin, and the meaning of Randolph is wolf shield. From the same root as Randall. English politician Lord Randolph Churchill. Associated with: wolf, shield (defender).
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- To date the only person to swear in a president who was not a judge was John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. , Calvin Coolidge 's father, a notary whose home the then-Vice President was visiting in 1923 when he learned of the death of President Warren G. Harding.
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African Americans threaten march on Washington, 1941 During April, Randolph announced that “plans for an all-out march of 10,000 Negroes on Washington are in the making, and a call will be issued in the next few weeks to keep in their minds night and day the idea that all roads lead to Wash, DC”.
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Randolph McCoy Randolph McCoy. Randolph Randall or Ole Ran'l McCoy (October 30, 1825 – March 28, 1914) was the patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud.
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- The March was scheduled for July 1, 1941. In May the President became convinced that Randolph had strong backing and that the demonstration would be of great size. Through Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, the President sought to persuade Randolph to cancel the March.
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Chase, Samuel Less than a year later, on March 12, 1804, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Chase by a 73 to 32 margin, naming John Randolph, a cousin of Jefferson and a mercurial politician in his own right, to head the House Managers responsible for prosecuting Chase in his trial before the Senate.
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- John Randolph, of Virginia, for whom the county had been named, fell into disfavor due to his opposition to the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The Georgia Legislature on the 10th of December 1812 passes the Act: The County of Randolph shall be called and known by the name of JASPER.
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A. Philip Randolph A. Philip Randolph. Introduction. A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the most important civil rights leader to emerge from the labor movement. Throughout his long career, he consistently kept the interests of black workers at the forefront of the racial agenda. Randolph’s politics were rooted in the World War I era.
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What does Randolph mean? How popular is Randolph? Randolph is a very prominent first name for males (#366 out of 1220, Top 30%) and also a very prominent last name for both adults and children (#792 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
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The 5 Black US Presidents Jim Blair Actually only four Presidents of Afrikan ancestry are identified in the book. The 5th was not named in the book at that time. Even though the evidence was strong, at the time of the writing of the book, it was not conclusive that Eisenhower is/was the fifth one. It is also asserted that Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, was known to have black blood in him.
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Randolph family of Virginia Randolph family of Virginia. The Randolph family is a prominent Virginia political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after it gained its statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The first Randolph to come to America was Henry Randolph in 1643. His nephew, William Randolph later came to Virginia as an orphan in 1669. He made his home at Turkey Island along the James River.
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Who Was John Randolph? John Randolph of Roanoke, David Johnson, LSU Press, 352 pages. John Randolph of Roanoke was everything the modern conservative might despise: aristocratic, sexually ambiguous, occasionally irreligious, anti-party, and the sworn enemy of military adventurism. His personality suggests he might have had more in common with the late Gore Vidal than Sarah Palin.
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A Biography of Edmund Randolph 1753-1813 He became mayor of Williamsburg and Virginia's attorney-general. In 1779 he was elected to the Continental Congress, and in November 1786 Randolph became Governor of Virginia. In 1786 he was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention.