Patrick Henry, Maker of the famous 'give me liberty or give me death' speech

John and Sarah Winston Henry gave birth to a child on 29th of May, 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia, producing Patrick Henry. He became a 'lawyer, patriot, orator, and willing participant in virtually every aspect of the founding of America.' He married twice, to Sarah Shelton, and to Dorothea Dandridge. John Henry taught him to read Latin, but eventually Patrick studied law by himself. In 1760, he took an attorney's examination in Williamsburg, before Robert Carter …

…Second Constitutional Congress, to which he was a delegate. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he was overwhelmingly elected first governor. He remained a governor until 1788.After the long fight over adopting the Constitution, Henry returned to his law practice and retired in 1794. In 1799, at Washington's request, he came out of retirement to run for the state legislature. Elected, he did not live to take the seat, dying on June 6, 1799.