SAMUEL

See also:

• JACKSON
• JACKSON, ANDREW (1767-1845)
• JACKSON, CYRIL (1746-1819)
• JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE (186o– )
• JACKSON, HELEN MARIA (1831–1885)
• JACKSON, MASON (c. 1820-1903)
• JACKSON, THOMAS (1579-1640)
• JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863)
• JACKSON, WILLIAM (1730-1803)

JACKSON

See also:

• SAMUEL JACKSON RANDALL (1828-189o)

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 As the leader of the Protectionist wing of the party he was superseded by the tariff reform advocates, such as John G .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

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