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Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry

American attorney, planter, and orator best known for <a href="/c/books/credit/617923/patrick-henry/">his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775)</a>: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.

Born1736-05-29, Studley, Colony of Virginia, British America
Died1799-06-06, Brookneal, Virginia, United States
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