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SAMUEL JACKSON RANDALL (1828-189o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:JACKSON See also:RANDALL (1828-189o)  , See also:American politician, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the loth of See also:October 1828 . He was educated in the public See also:schools and in the University See also:Academy, Philadelphia . In 1858–1859 he was a Democratic member of the See also:state See also:Senate . During the See also:Civil See also:War he served as a private in the See also:Union See also:army for ninety days in 1861, and two years later took See also:part in the See also:Gettysburg See also:campaign as a volunteer . From 1863 until his See also:death he was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress . During the session of 1874–1875 he first gained a See also:national reputation by the masterful manner in which he prevented the Republican See also:majority from passing the Force See also:Bill or Federal See also:Election See also:law . Under his leadership discipline and party See also:harmony were established among the Democrats for the first See also:time after the Civil War . He was See also:speaker of the See also:House from See also:December 1876 to See also:March 1881, during a See also:period marked by rancorous debates concerning the disputed See also:Hayes-See also:Tilden presidential election . With the disappearance of the Reconstruction questions and the emergence of the See also:tariff issue, however, his See also:influence began to wane . As the See also:leader of the Protectionist wing of the party he was superseded by the tariff reform See also:advocates, such as See also:John G . See also:Carlisle, See also:William R . See also:Morrison, and See also:Roger Q .

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Mills, Carlisle defeating him for the speakership in 1883 . He died in Washing-ton, D.C., on the 13th of See also:April 1890 .

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