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Edmund Jenings Randolph (Aug. 10, 1753 – Sept. 12, 1813), seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.

Archivist finds 1794 Edmund Randolph document in Ike’s papers

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson

Edmund Jenings Randolph (Aug. 10, 1753 – Sept. 12, 1813), seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.
Edmund Jenings Randolph (Aug. 10, 1753 – Sept. 12, 1813), seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) – Valoise Armstrong knew she stumbled on something that was out of place among millions of pages from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration.

In July, Armstrong was going through a box of White House files at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene when she found a document from 1794. It detailed the costs of a federal court case in Philadelphia that involved Secretary of State Edmund Randolph.

The document was found among papers and letters sent to Eisenhower in 1955 during his term in the White House. It came from a prolific writer in California and was never read by the president.

Armstrong was amazed that the piece of paper had survived for centuries, even though it was little more than a scrap.

It was sent to Philadelphia to be included with other federal court records that are in the National Archives.

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