James
Fitz Randolph (1791-1872)
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Birthplace
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Middlesex County, N.J. |
Occupation
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Printer,
official |
| Congressional Service |
House 1827-33 (NR?-New Jersey) |
Newspapers
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New
Brunswick Fredonian, 1811-42 (R, NR?, W?) |
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Federal
appointments
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Postmaster,
New Brunswick, ca. 1810s (Madison) |
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Collector,
Perth Amboy, 1815-46 (Madison) |
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| Other
offices |
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State
assembly, 1823-24 |
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Clerk
of the court of common pleas |
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| Notes |
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New
Jersey was perhaps the most editor-friendly state in the early
years: Along with James J. Wilson,
Fitz Randolph seems to have been the most heavily rewarded of the
pre-Jacksonian era editors. |
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Left
in office by Andrew Jackson, and so qualifies as an honorary Jackson
editorial appointee. |
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President,
Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, founded 1834, possibly a "pet bank" or
intended as one |
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Sources
and Bibliography
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Letters
in Samuel Southard Papers, Princeton University |
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Carl
E. Prince, New Jersey's Jeffersonian Republicans: The Genesis
of an Early Party Machine, 1789-1817 (1967) |
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