George Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 23, 1904 – January 26, 1972) was an American heir and media executive. He was the son of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the vice president of the Hearst Corporation.
George Randolph Hearst III (born 1955) is the publisher and CEO of the Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York, a director of the Hearst Corporation and a member of the wealthy Hearst family.
Randolph had largely shunned politics, but John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859 inflamed sectional tensions and served to radicalize Randolph.