Edmund Jenings was a Virginia

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n politician. He was President of the Council of Virginia and later became the acting governor from August 23, 1706, to June 10, 1708.

His father Sir Edmund Jenings was a Member of Parliament

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. His daughter, Elizabeth Jenings, married Robert Porteus, and was the mother of Beilby Porteus

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, Bishop of Chester

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 and London

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.

Ariana, his granddaughter, married John Randolph

John Randolph (Williamsburg)

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. They were parents of Edmund Jenings Randolph, who was Governor of Virginia

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 and the first Attorney General of the United States

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 under George Washington.