William Harrison Randall, Sr.

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1812-07-15

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1881-08-01

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"William Harrison Randall, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000824, (accessed November 5, 2024).

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Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney, clerk, and politician. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha Jane Slaughter Randall. Father of Julia Randall, Richard Randall, William H. Randall, Jr., James Randall, Sarah E. Randall, and Charles M. Randall. Attorney in Laurel County in 1835. Clerk of the Laurel County Court and Laurel Circuit Court from 1836 to 1855. Owned two enslaved persons in Laurel County in 1850. Attorney in Laurel County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, p. 12A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 473.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, The Town of London, p. 146A.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 1584.
Russell Dyche, Laurel County, Kentucky (London, KY: The Sentinel-Echo, 1954), pp. 40-41.
Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 410.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 559.

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