John W. Randolph was a state legislator in Mississippi.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 176 He represented Sunflower County and Leflore County in the Mississippi House of Representatives 1874 and 1875. In 1875, he was chosen to serve as the circuit and chancery clerk in Sunflower County. Up until the early 1900s, he attended Republican political conventions.
He was appointed to succeed G. W. Bowles on the chancery court.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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