Patrick Henry

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American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 - 1799)

United States PoliticiansLived 1736 to 1799 · aged 63

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Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

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View of Rural Plains near Totopotomoy Creek in Virginia. Henry was reportedly married to Sarah Shelton in the parlor.

Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause (George Cooke, c. 1834)

Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses (Peter F. Rothermel, 1851)

19th century engraving of Washington (center), Henry (right) and Pendleton riding to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress

Currier & Ives depiction of Henry giving his famous speech

Royal proclamation against Henry, 1775

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SpouseSarah Shelton Henry

SpouseDorothea Dandridge Henry

MotherSarah Winston Syme Henry

ChildDorothea Spotswood Henry

ChildSarah Butler Henry

SiblingAnnie Henry Christian

SiblingElizabeth Henry Campbell Russell

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