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Patrick Henry
Born: May 29, 1736
Studley, Virginia
Died: June 6, 1799
Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He was the second son of John Henry, a successful Scottish-born planter, and Sarah Wynston Syme. He married with Sarah Shelton and began a career as a farmer on land provided by his father-in-law.
By 1760 Henry had decided to become a lawyer. He educatedhimself for about a year and then was admitted to the bar, an association for lawyers.

In 1763 Henry was very popular because he criticized the church for pushing its members around. He also criticized the British government, claiming that it encouraged the church in its disrespectful behavior.
For ten years Henry used his voice and wide support to lead the anti-British movement in theVirginia legislature.

During those years Henry led the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and is well remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech.
In 1770 he was who led the movement for independence in Virginia, a Founding Father
In 1776 - 1779 and 1784 – 1786 he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia but declined to attend the ConstitutionalConvention of 1787 saying that he "smelt a rat in Philadelphia, tending toward the monarchy." He wanted to refer to James Madison (1751-1836) of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) of New York.
Henry served as a representative to the Virginia convention of 1788 that ratified the U. S. Constitution. He voted against ratification. He was chosen as an elector for the 1789 election from CampbellDistrict.
In 1798 President John Adams nominated Henry special emissary to France, but he had to decline because of failing health and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a Federalist. However, three months prior to taking his seat in the state legislature, he died of stomach cancer on June 6, 1799.

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Jonathan Edwards
Born: October 5, 1703
Princeton, N.J.
Died: March 22,1758
He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a minister at East Windsor, Connecticut. His mother, Esther Stoddard, daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Massachusetts, seems to have been a woman of unusual mental gifts and independence of character.
He entered Yale College in 1716, at just under the age of thirteen. He was interested in natural history and, at the age of seventeen,wrote a remarkable essay on the habits of the "flying spider." Even before his graduation in September 1720. Even though he would go on to study theology for two years after his graduation in New Haven, Edwards continued to be interested in science. However, while many European scientists and American clergymen found the implications of science pushing them towards deism, Edwards went the other way;he saw the natural world as evidence of God's masterful design.
On February 15, 1727, Edwards was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. In the same year, he married Sarah Pierpont.
In 1734 - 1735 there occurred in his parish a "great awakening” of religious feeling; in 1740--1741 occurred another, which extended through a large part of New England.At this time he became associated with George Whitefield. He did not favor the extravagances attending the new measures of the revivalists. He did promote the doctrinal purity, at the same time quickening the zeal, of the churches. Edwards was ejected in 1750 from the pastorate which be had adorned for more than twenty-three years.
In Aug., 1751, he was installed pastor of the smallCongregational church in Stockbridge, Mass., and missionary of the Housatonic Indians at that place whom he served with fidelity. On Sept. 26, 1757, he was elected president of the college at Princeton, N. J. but finally yielded to the advice of others, and was dismissed from his Stockbridge pastorate Jan. 4, 1758. One week after his inauguration he was inoculated for the smallpox. After the ordinary...