Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh Jr. (January 15, 1915 – February 5, 1998) was an American attorney who served as the circuit solicitor of South Carolina's 14th judicial district from 1940 until his retirement in 1986. He was the second patriarch of the Murdaugh family from 1940 until the 1980s.
Murdaugh announced his campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination to succeeded his father as Circuit solicitor of South Carolina's 14th judicial district, a week after his death in July 1940.[3]
He won the 1940 special election and served until 1986.[4] In his forty-six years in office, Murdaugh ran opposed only twice.[5] A few months after the death of his father, Murdaugh sued the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, claiming that poor maintenance of the rail crossing had contributed to the accident causing his father's death. Although there were rumors that the crash was no accident, with some believing that Murdaugh Sr. intentionally stopped his car on the tracks to commit suicide or that the crash was alcohol-related, Charleston and Western Carolina RW settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum.[6]