the U.S. House of Representatives with 40.54% of the vote, defeating Federalists Powhatan Bolling and Clement Carington. 1801; Randolph was reelected unopposed. 1823; Randolph was reelected unopposed. 1825; Randolph was reelected unopposed. 1827; Randolph was reelected unopposed. 1833; Randolph was reelected unopposed. Cultural depictions Portrayed by Melvyn Douglas in the 1936 film The Gorgeous Hussy. Portrayed by Edwin Maxwell in the 1942 film Ten Gentlemen from West Point. Edgar Allan Poe in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) states that the fatally consumptive M. Valdemar "is (or was) particularly noticeable for the extreme sparseness of his personhis lower limbs much resembling those of John Randolph". Poe might have seen Randolph while living in Richmond, Virginia, from 1820 to 1827. Ancestry See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) List of United States political appointments that crossed party lines Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 Works Randolph, John. Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative, 1834, 254 pp. (Available online.) Randolph, John. Collected letters of John Randolph of Roanoke to Dr. John Brockenbrough, 1812–1833, edited by Kenneth Shorey; foreword by Russell Kirk, Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1988. Notes References Bibliography Adams, Henry. John Randolph (1882); New Edition with Primary Documents and Introduction by Robert McColley, 1996, ; negative assessment. (Available online.) Bruce, William Cabell. John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833; a biography based largely on new material, in 2 volumes; New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 (2nd revised edition in 1 volume 1939, reprinted New York, Octagon Books, 1970); exhaustive details. (Available online: Vol. I, Vol. II.) Dawidoff, Robert. The Education of John Randolph, New York: Norton, 1979. Devanny, John F., Jr. "'A Loathing of Public Debt, Taxes, and Excises': The Political Economy of John Randolph of Roanoke," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 2001 109(4): pp 387–416. Garland, Hugh A. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke; New York: Appleton & Company, 1851. (Available online: Vol. I, Vol. II.) Johnson, David. John Randolph of Roanoke (Louisiana State University Press; 2012) 352 pages; detailed scholarly biography Kauffman, Bill. Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, Metropolitan, 2008. Kirk, Russell. Randolph of Roanoke; a study in conservative thought, (1951), 186 pp. Short essay; recent editions include many letters. (Available online.) John Randolph of Roanoke: a study in American politics, with selected speeches and letters, 4th ed., Indianapolis,