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overnor of Virginia (first and sixth, post-colonial America) and Founding Father.
Timeline
Birth- May 29, 1736
Studley, Hanover County, Virginia
Marriage- 1754-Age: 18 years
Sarah Shelton
Rural Plains (Mechanicsville, Hanover County, Virginia)
1775 - 1783US Revolutionary War- Ages: 47 - 39 years
Conflict Period
US Revolutionary War
Service Start Date
Aug 1775
Branch
Army
Rank
Colonel
Service End Date
1783
Served For
United States of America
Marriage- Oct 25, 1777-Age: 41 years
Dorothea Dandridge
Virginia
Employment: End Date
1784
Employment: Employer
Virginia Assembly
Employment: Start Date
1780
Elected to First Continental Congress
1774
Made colonel of 1st Virginia Regiment
Aug 1775
Elected as first post-colonial Governor of Vir
1776
Became qualified lawyer
1760
Made famous speech in the VA House of Burgesses
Mar 23, 1775
Quote
"Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"
Occupation
Attorney, planter, politician
Introduced Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
1765
Gender
Male
Gained local attention from "Parson's Cause" case
1763
Death- Jun 6, 1799-Age: 63 years
Red Hill Plantation (Charlotte County, Virginia)
Stomach cancer
Other Facts
Full Name
Patrick Henry
Mother
Sarah Winston Syme
Father
John Henry
