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Peyton Randolph, Lieutenant and Acting Governor,

Dec. 26, 1811-Jan. 3, 1812.

Upon the death of Governor Smith, Peyton Randolph, as
President of the Council of State, or Lieutenant Governor,
acted as Governor for a few days, when James Barbour of
Orange County was elected Governor by the Legislature. He
was the son of Edmund Randolph and graduated at William
and Mary College in 1798. Inheriting the genius of his progenitors
for several generations he became early distinguished
in the practice of his profession of the law. In 1821
he became the reporter of the Supreme Court of Virginia, but

died December 26, 1828, and was succeeded as reporter by the
eminent Benjamin Watkins Leigh.