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Alexander Williams Randall (October 31, 1819 – July 26, 1872) was an American lawyer, judge, and Republican politician from Waukesha, Wisconsin. He served as the 22nd United States Postmaster General, during the administration of President Andrew Johnson (1865–1869).
Brief biography of lawyer, judge and politician Alexander W. Randall, who served as the sixth Governor of Wisconsin from 1858 until 1861.
In 1848, now a Free Soiler Democrat, Randall began serving in the Wisconsin state legislature. His commitment to the antislavery movement brought him to the attention of the Republican Wisconsin governor, Coles Bashford, who, in 1855, tapped Randall to fill a vacant state court judgeship in Milwaukee.
Alexander Williams Randall was an American lawyer, judge, and Republican politician from Waukesha, Wisconsin. He served as the 22nd United States Postmaster General, during the administration of President Andrew Johnson (1865–1869).
ALEXANDER WILLIAMS RANDALL was born in Ames, New York. He studied law under his father and was admitted to the bar in 1838 at the age of nineteen. Two years later he moved to Prairieville (now Waukesha), Wisconsin, where he practiced law and won an appointment by President Polk to the position of Waukesha postmaster, […]
THE history of the early regiments from Wisconsin, in the war of the rebellion, is in part a biography of Governor Alexander W. Randall. No candid person, acquainted with the facts in the case, will deny that he was patriotic, earnest, and efficient in furnishing troops for the war.
Alexander Williams Randall (October 31, 1819– July 26, 1872) was a lawyer, judge and politician from Wisconsin. He served as the sixth Governor of Wisconsin from 1858 until 1861.
