John Randolph papers, 1903-1927

Biographical Note

John Leffingwell Randolph was born on June 5, 1878 in Warsaw, New York. He was a clerk at the American consulate in Moscow, Russia, in 1916. Randolph later served as U.S. consul at American consulates around the world including those in Constantinople, Turkey; Bagdhad, Iraq; and Bucharest, Romania. In 1927 he married Persis Schramm Lentz in Baghdad. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1954.