Knowing someone's background information can help make inferences on one's decisions or how they play a role in an event. Edmund Randolph was born on August 17, 1753 and grew up up in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he lived with his mother and father, Ariana Jenings and John Randolph, and his two sisters. Edmund studied law with his father after going to the college of William and Mary. Edmund and his fathers had a tense connection during the revolution. In 1774, he took Thomas Jefferson’s law clients as a side job when Thomas retired. Later he married, had five children, and was of high status. Edmund had many high status positions consisting of a governor, a lawyer, a planter, a general, and an assistant to Washington when he was a general. …show more content…
During the early start of the revolution, Edmund’s father was a Loyalist and Edmund went to live with his father as a colonist. He started off with becoming the mayor of Williamsburg and in 1786 became Virginia’s Governor. Edmund served as a right-hand man to General Washington while Edmund was a military officer. During the Constitutional Convention, Edmund purposed the Virginia Plan consisting of three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. This later on became a big part in the Constitution. While James Madison was for a strong Executive over the three branches, Edmund was on the council of the first draft of the Constitution, but did not sign the Constitution because he felt like it had faults and needed a Bill of Rights. Edmond did not want one person as Executive because he was worried about anarchy. Later on, he helped create a more stable one that he began to support. He became the U.S. Attorney General because of George Washington and his presidency at the time. Every position Edmund Randolph played leading up and being in the Constitution helped shaped the