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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaRANDALL, Samuel Jackson
(1828—1890)
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.
Bibliography
House, Albert V. “The Political Career of Samuel Jackson Randall.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1935.
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.
———. “The Political Career of Samuel Jackson Randall.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1935.
Randall, Samuel J. An Address delivered before the literary societies of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna., Ninety-eighth Commencement, by the Hon. Samuel J. Randall.
N.p.: Press of Geo. H. McCully and Company, 1882.
———. Lehigh University. Exercises at the Celebration of the Founder’s-Day, Thursday, October 13, 1881, with the Memorial Address by the Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania.
Reading, Pa.: Press of B. F. Owen, 1881.
———. Substitution of Silver Coin: Speeches of Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Hon. Erastus Wells, of Missouri, in the House of Representatives, March 17 and 27, 1876.
Washington: N.p., 1876.
———. Tariff Commission. Speech of Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Friday, May 5, 1882.
Washington: N.p., 1883.
———-. The Tariff. Speech of Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, May 6, 1884.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Samuel J. Randall, A Representative from Pennsylvania, Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, First Session.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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