Edmund Randolph: First Attorney General of the United States
Edmund Randolph was the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General. Introduction Randolph was born on August 10, 1753 to the influential Randolph family in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virginia. He was educated at the College of William and Mary. After graduation he began reading law with his father John Randolph and uncle, Peyton Randolph.[…]