PatrickHenry


 * Patrick Henry**




 * //•// Personal Life**

- Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736 in Virginia. He was a prominent figure in the [|American Revolution]. He was a farmer and a storekeeper before he was a lawyer and politicion. He was accepted into the Virginia bar in 1760, Henry also became a success immediately as a trial lawyer. Patrick Henry had a very large family, his sister was teh grandmother of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754. Together they had six children, Martha, John, William, Anne, Elizabeth, & Edward. His wife Sarah, then died in 1775 and in 1777 he married a seconed time to Dorthea Dandridge. From that marriage there were 11 children Dorthea, Sarah, Martha, Patrick, Fayette, Alexander, Nathaniel, Richard, Edward, John, & Jane.


 * • Professional Life**

- Along with [|Samuel Adams] & [|Thomas Paine], he was one of the most influential advocats of he revolution and republicanism, especially in his denunciations of corruption in goverment officals and his defense of historic rights. He is known mainly for his [|"Give me Liberty, Or give me Death!"] speech.

- Patrick Henry gave his very famous [|"Give me Liberty, Or give me Death!"] speech. He gave it on March 23rd 1775, at St. Johns Church in Richmond, Virginia - He also gave the famous "Parson's Cause" speech in 1763. - His other famous "Stamp Act"speech was given in 1765 at the House Of Burgesses in Williamsburg.
 * • Major works**
 * //Patrick Henry's "Treason" speech before the House Of Burgesses in an 1851 painting//**


 * • Period**

- The period that Henry has lived in was the American Revolution, it refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies that became the United States of America gained independence from the British Empire. - In this period, the Colonies united agains the British Empire and entered a period of armed conflict known as teh Revolutionary War.