RANDALL, Samuel Jackson, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 10, 1828;
attended the common schools and the University Academy in Philadelphia; engaged
in mercantile pursuits; member of the common council of Philadelphia 1852-1855;
member of the State senate in 1858 and 1859; served as a member of the First
Troop of Philadelphia in 1861 and was in the Union Army three months of that
year and again as captain in 1863; was promoted to provost marshal at
Gettysburg; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and to the thirteen
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his death; chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Forty-fourth, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and
Fiftieth Congresses), Committee on Public Expenditures (Forty-seventh Congress);
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth
Congresses); died in Washington, D.C., April 13, 1890; interment in Laurel Hill
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. -- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Bibliography
DAB; House, Albert V., Jr. “Contributions of Samuel J. Randall to
the Rules of the National House of Representatives.” American Political
Science Review 29 (October 1935): 837-41; House, Albert V. “The Political
Career of Samuel Jackson Randall.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Wisconsin, 1935.
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