Lottie Randolph (1886 or 1887 in

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– January 24, 1968 in

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) was a prominent

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in the State of

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Biography

She was born in Rushville, Ohio. In 1931, she received her master farm homemaker degree from

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. In 1936, her husband Frank M. Randolph, a farmer, died. Randolph was the assistant director of the Department of Agriculture in Ohio from 1939 to 1944 and 1947 to 1948, under two Governors. In this role, she worked to protect the consumer, distributor and farmer by improving market news reporting and the grading and inspection regulations. One important component was to educate the consumer by standardizing label information to guide the consumer to making the best purchase. During

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, she worked to recruit women for the Women’s Land Army as assistant director of Farm Labor at

. In 1950, Randolph announced her candidacy for

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. She ultimately lost the Republican nomination to Ted W. Brown. In 1953, she was appointed assistant to the administrator of the farmers’ home administration.

Death and legacy

Randolph died in 1968. Randolph was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame and the Ohio Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1978.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Randolph, Lottie 1880s births 1968 deaths American agriculturalists Ohio State University alumni People from Fairfield County, Ohio