Edmund Randolph

By the time he had finished, Hay had assembled 140 such witnesses.

Burr's defense team, in turn, included such notables as Benjamin Botts, Charles Lee, Edmund Randolph, John Wickham, and Luther Martin, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

Martin made no secret of his friendship with Burr or of his contempt for the dictatorial tactics of Thomas Jefferson.

And as the trial continued, Martin stood before Marshall with an extraordinary request.

Michael Brown wasn't so fortunate and he died on June 1st, just one week after drinking the tainted coffee.

Upon hearing the news, Wythe summoned his attorney Edmund Randolph and signed a codicil disinheriting Sweeney entirely, redirecting his share to Sweeney's siblings.

And you're going to want to keep Randolph's name in mind, because he would play a very bizarre role in the criminal trial, especially given his tangential involvement in the case.

The old founding father lingered another week in excruciating pain.

The defense was surprisingly formidable.

Two lawyers volunteered to represent a man almost everyone in Richmond believed to be guilty.

William Wirt, a brilliant young attorney, saw the high-profile case as a career-making opportunity The other was Edmund Randolph, Wythe's own longtime friend and personal attorney, and perhaps the last person you'd expect to represent the accused poisoner.

Randolph had fallen on hard times after resigning from George Washington's cabinet amid a political scandal and needed a courtroom victory to rebuild his reputation.

On this 25th day of June, 1788, the Virginia Ratifying Convention has been taken completely by surprise.

Mr. Edmund Randolph, present governor of Virginia, has come out publicly in favor

of the proposed federal constitution for the United States of America.

As a delegate to this crucial convention, and up to now an avowed enemy of the Constitution, Governor Randolph has been a leader in the campaign against ratification.

Does it smell any sweeter now? No.

The Constitution remains unchanged.

It is Edmund Randolph who has changed.

Randolph.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 29, 1787, with the rules adopted and the doors closed, the Governor of Virginia rose from his delegation's table with a paper in his hands.

Edmund Randolph was thirty-three years old, tall, handsome, and by common consent the finest presence in his delegation.

Major Pierce of Georgia, sketching him as he sketched everyone, wrote, "'Mr.

Randolph is a governor of Virginia, a young gentleman in whom unite all the accomplishments of the scholar and the statesman.' He came forward with the first principles on which the convention acted, and he supported them with a force of eloquence and a reasoning that did him great honor.

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And then number 10, Edmund Randolph was the first person to hold this position in the United States.

Well, today it is a high profile position.

At the time, he had no government staff and continued to maintain his private law practice.

All right, here we go.

Number 10, number 10.

Edmund Randolph was the first person to hold this position in the United States.

Well, today it's a high-profile position.

And we've been talking about that for 155 episodes, especially once we got onto the Constitution.

Edmund Randolph from Virginia put forward the Virginia Plan, which basically was the idea that we're going to get rid of the one congress with only 13 votes in it and establish um a whole new set of rules have congress would be representatives and senate on the other side a president a judiciary uh and so they ended up they go through all this stuff we've been talking about how how does all that uh get on get on through well roger sherman basically was a guy from connecticut and he's famous for I know you've heard this before, Clint, but I'm not going to make you answer out loud.

The guy who signed every document along the way.

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