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Ran⋅dolph

  [ran-dolf, -duhlf]
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1. A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
2. Edmund Jennings  [jen-ings] , 1753–1813, U.S. statesman: first U.S. Attorney General 1789–94; Secretary of State 1794–95.
3. John, 1773–1833, U.S. statesman and author.
4. a town in E Massachusetts, S of Boston. 28,218.
5. a male given name.
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Ran·dolph   (rān'dŏlf')   
American labor and civil rights leader. As founder of the activist magazine The Messenger (1917), and holding influential positions in both the AFL-CIO and the National Negro Congress, he campaigned for an end to racial discrimination in organized labor.
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Randolph 
masc. proper name, from O.N. Rannulfr "shield-wolf" and Frank. *Rannulf "raven-wolf," both brought to England by the Normans.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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