Question: Who obtained congressional approval of the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France?
Context: The Federal Power Act is a law appearing in Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the United States Code, entitled "Federal Regulation and Development of Power".  Enacted as the Federal Water Power Act on June 10, 1920, and amended many times since, its original purpose was to more effectively coordinate the development of hydroelectric projects in the United States.  Representative John J. Esch (R-Wisconsin) was the sponsor.  Prior to this time and despite federal control of navigable waters and the necessary congressional approval to construct such facilities, Congress had left the regulation of hydroelectric power to the individual states.  The first federal legislation broadly dealing with hydroelectric development regarded its competition with navigation usage; with the passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 Congress made it illegal to dam navigable streams without a license (or permit) from them.  Until 1903, these congressional permits were given away on a 'first come first served' perpetual basis and controlled by the individual states.  This would lead to a long debate between competing private and public development interests, and culminate in the act's passage in 1920. Wilkinson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,878.  Its county seat is Woodville.  The county is named for James Wilkinson, a Revolutionary War military leader and first governor of the Louisiana Territory after its acquisition by the United States in 1803. The March for the Equal Rights Amendment took place on July 9, 1978 in Washington, DC.  Over 100,000 people marched for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.  There were 35 notable speakers at the march organized by the National Organization for Women.  The amendment proposed equal rights for women, and was first introduced to Congress in 1923, finally gaining Congressional approval in 1972.  Once Congress had approved the amendment, ratification by the states was requested and the typical 7-year time limit for ratification by two-thirds of the states was set in motion.  The march was held to convince legislators that the period allowed for ratification should be extended beyond the deadline, which would occur on 29 March 1979.  Protesters were successful in getting the House to approve an extension to 1982 in August, 1978 and the Senate to grant approval of the same timeframe by a vote of 60 to 36 in October 1978.  It was the first time that a proposed amendment to the Constitution had ever had its ratification period extended.  Since 1982, extension of the ratification has been reintroduced in every legislative session.  It has not yet been ratified by all the states to become a part of the Constitution of the United States. The District of Louisiana, or Louisiana District, was an official, temporary, United States government designation for the portion of the Louisiana Purchase that had not been organized into the Orleans Territory.  It officially existed from March 10, 1804 until July 4, 1805, when it was incorporated as the Louisiana Territory. The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory. The Louisiana Purchase (French: "Vente de la Louisiane" "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.  The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000 USD) and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs ($3,750,000 USD) for a total of sixty-eight million francs ($15,000,000 USD, or around $250m in 2016 dollars).  The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.  The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River (plus New Orleans); and small portions of land within the present Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.  Its non-native population was around 60,000 inhabitants, of whom half were African slaves. Randolph County is located between the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Delta in the U.S. state of Arkansas.  The county is named for John Randolph, a U.S. senator from Virginia influential in obtaining congressional approval of the Louisiana Purchase, which includes today's Randolph County.  Created as Arkansas's 32nd county on October 29, 1835, Randolph County has two incorporated cities, including Pocahontas, the county seat and most populous city.  The county is also the site of numerous unincorporated communities and ghost towns. The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, 12 Stat.  755 (1863), entitled "An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases," was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in response to the United States Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners.  It began in the House of Representatives as an indemnity bill, introduced on December 5, 1862, releasing the president and his subordinates from any liability for having suspended habeas corpus without congressional approval.  The Senate amended the House's bill, and the compromise reported out of the conference committee altered it to qualify the indemnity and to suspend habeas corpus on Congress's own authority.  Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law on March 3, 1863, and suspended habeas corpus under the authority it granted him six months later.  The suspension was partially lifted with the issuance of Proclamation 148 by Andrew Johnson, and the Act became inoperative with the end of the Civil War.  The exceptions to his Proclamation 148 were the States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. In the United States of America, an interstate compact is an agreement between two or more states.  Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State."  Consent can be obtained in one of three ways.  First, there can be a model compact and Congress can grant automatic approval for any state wishing to join it, such as the Driver License Compact.  Second, states can submit a compact to Congress prior to entering into the compact.  Third, states can agree to a compact then submit it to Congress for approval, which, if it does so, causes it to come into effect.  Not all compacts between states require explicit Congressional approval - the Supreme Court ruled in "Virginia v. Tennessee" that only those agreements which would increase the power of states at the expense of the federal government required it. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France.
Answer: John Randolph