Draft:Samuel Randall (Rhode Island judge)
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Samuel Randall (1778 – March 8, 1864)[1] was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1824 to May 1833.[2]
Of Warren.[3]
Samuel Randall was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1804. He studied law one year with Judge Howell, and then for several years devoted himself to teaching and editing a country newspaper. From 1822 to 1832 he was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Two years after retiring from the bench he was admitted to the bar.[4]
In June 1860, the Town of Warren presented a "Testimonial to Hon. Samuel Randall", noting his half-century of service as town clerk, beginning with his election to the office on August 23, 1809.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Death of a Prominent Citizen of Rhode Island", Boston Evening Transcript (March 9, 1864), p. 2.
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
- ^ Horace Williams Fuller, ed., The Green Bag, Vol. 2 (1890), p. 533.
- ^ "Testimonial to Hon. Samuel Randall", Warren Telegraph (June 2, 1860), p. 2.
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