Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. was an American planter, soldier, and politician from Virginia. He served as a member of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, a representative in the United States Congress, and as the 21st governor of Virginia, from 1819 to 1822. He married Martha Jefferson, the oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. They had eleven children who survived childhood. As an adult, Randolph developed alcoholism, and he and his wife separated for some time before his death.
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
Thomas Sully, Portrait of Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha "Patsy" Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.
1836 portrait by Thomas Sully
John Rogers, after portrait by Thomas Sully, Mrs. Thomas M. Randolph (Martha Jefferson), 1880, three-quarter-length engraving. Martha Jefferson Randolph was tall and slim with angular features and red hair, and was said to have closely resembled her father, to whom she was devoted.
Pentemont Abbey (French: Abbaye de Penthemont), was an exclusive convent school in Paris, France that Randolph attended when her father was U.S. Minister to France
Edmund P. Archer, after an unsigned and undated portrait, Thomas Mann Randolph, ca. 1928, oil, Commonwealth of Virginia's art collection, Library of Virginia
