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Randolph, James Fitz

journalist, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born June 26, 1791, in Middlesex county, N. J. He became editor of the Fredonian, a weekly newspaper, in 1812, and continued in that capacity for thirty years. He was appointed collector of internal revenue of the United States in 1815, and held that office until the close of the war in Texas. He was subsequently clerk of the court of common pleas for his native county; and was for two years a member of the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1828 to 1833; and was afterwards president of a bank in New Brunswick for ten years. He died March 19, 1871, in Jersey City, N. J.