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Henry, Patrick 1736-
Statesman; born in Studley, Hanover co., Va., May 29, 1736; was of Scotch descent.
His father was a native of Aberdeen, and liberally educated.
Embarking in commercial pursuits at the age of fifteen years, he was unsuccessful.
Marrying Miss Shelton, daughter of an innkeeper, at eighteen, he assisted, at times, in keeping a hotel ; and finally, after six weeks study, he took up the profession of the law. But want of business kept him very poor, and he was twenty-seven years old before his oratorical powers were discovered.
Then, in a celebrated case tried in the courthouse of Hanover county, he made such a wonderful forensic speech that his fame as an orator was established.
Henry became a member of the Virginia House of
Patrick Henry. Burgesses in 1765, wherein, that year, he introduced resolutions for bold opposition to the Stamp Act, and made a most remarkable speech.
From that time he was regarded as a leader of the radical patriots of his colony.