The second SOS under Washington was Edmond Randolf. Another rich dude.
Randolph was born on August 10, 1753 to the influential
Randolph family in
Williamsburg, Virginia. He was educated at the
College of William and Mary. After graduation he began
reading law with his father
John Randolph and uncle,
Peyton Randolph. In 1775, with the start of the
American Revolution, Randolph's father remained a
Loyalist and returned to
Britain; Edmund Randolph remained in America where he joined the
Continental Army as
aide-de-camp to
General George Washington.
Upon the death of his uncle
Peyton Randolph in October 1775, Randolph returned to
Virginia to act as executor of the estate,
And who was Abraham Lincoln's SOS? William H Seward.
Seward was born in the small community of
Florida, New York, in
Orange County, on May 16, 1801, the third son of
Samuel Sweezy Seward and his wife Mary (Jennings) Seward.
[2] Samuel Seward was a wealthy landowner and slaveholder in New York State; slavery was not fully abolished until 1827.
[3]
Those fucking evil rich SOS's fucking up the country! Bastards!