Edward H. Randolph | |
Birth Place: | Bossier Parish, Louisiana |
Death Place: | Shreveport, Louisiana |
Spouse: | Mary Rose Austin Randolph (married 1911; died 1919) Annie Jeffries Randolph (married ?; died 1907) |
Birth Name: | Edward Hughes Randolph |
Birth Date: | 12 March 1858 |
Office1: | United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana |
President1: | William Howard Taft |
Term Start1: | 1910 |
Term End1: | 1913 |
Predecessor1: | Milton C. Elstner |
Successor1: | George W. Jack |
Edward Hughes Randolph (1858–1934) was an American lawyer from Louisiana[1] who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana under President Taft. He was known for fighting against the draft lottery.[2]
Edward Hughes Randolph was born in Bossier Parish in 1858 to Edward G. Randolph and Mary E. Thompson.[3] He became the attorney for the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company, Houston & Shreveport Railway and counsel for the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway as well as for Shreveport Traction Company.[4] He was a member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1884,[5] a member of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee (1895–1896). However, he left the party after that year. In 1901 he was the attorney for the city of Shreveport.[6] and in 1906 appeared before the Louisiana Supreme Court.[7] He would become U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana in 1910 and hold that position until 1913. He was also a former president of the Louisiana Bar Association.