Patrick Henry: A Brief Biography

Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia on May 29, 1736 (Biography.com). His father was a Scotland immigrant, and his mother from the line a Virginia gentry ( Biography.com). His father served in the colony as a Justice of The Peace (“Henry, Patrick”). At age 15, he ran a store for his father to fail to succeed (“Henry,Patrick”). As a child, he loved long walks in the forest by himself and he was a child in love with music, he learned to play the fiddle and the flute. ( Biography.com ). As I was saying before, how he ran a store for his father and it didn’t succeed ( “ Henry, Patrick”). Although, he ended up meeting a daughter of a local keeper, Sarah Shelton and marrying her in 1754. As part of his wife’s dowry, he had received some farmland ( Biography.com). He tried growing Tobacco there for three years, but that

In 1765 Henry won the election to the House of Burgesses, proving himself to be a powerful politic by speaking against the Stamp Act ( Biography.com ). From his position in the House of Burgesses he spoke against British policies for the following 10 years (“Henry, Patrick”). He served in four of the five Virginia Conventions between 1774-1775. He helped draft the Constitution of Virginia and he became its first governor, serving from 1776-1779 and again in 1784-1786 (“Henry, Patrick”). In 1774 The Colony of Virginia elected Henry a delegate to the first Continental Congress. He was also a member of the Second Continental Congress for a short time in 1775 (“Henry, Patrick”). In this time his wife Sarah Shelton died in Scotchtown ( “Patrick Henry”). After this incident, he became Commander in Chief of Virginia’s Military forces. In February 1776 he resigned. He was elected governor again in ‘77, ‘78, ‘84, and ‘85 ( “Patrick