John Herman Randall Jr.

Dr. John Herman Randall Jr. was an American historian, philosopher, New Thought author, and educator who wrote a series of highly respected works on the history of philosophy. Randall was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of John Herman Randall Sr., a Baptist minister. He married Mercedes Irene Moritz in December 1922, and they had two sons, John Herman Randall III and Francis Ballard Randall. Randall studied under historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson at Columbia University, …