Patrick Henry: Revolutionary Achievements Throughout His Life

Essential, significant, intellectual, indispensable, patriotic- these words relate to the importance of Patrick Henry in American History. Throughout Henry’s life he accomplished many different things that revolutionized America. Patrick Henry’s achievements occurred at many different stages in his life; some were in his childhood and early years, his adulthood, and the older parts of his life. Henry was a person of great value to America because of the tremendous achievements he obtained during the different stages in his life. On May 29, 1736 Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He grew up on a plantation where almost all of his schooling came from his father, who attended a university in Scotland, but some of it also came

For example, between the First and Second Continental Congress Henry helped organize a volunteer militia in his own county, Hanover County, while also dealing with Sarah’s, his wives, mental illness. After Sarah died Henry partially returned to his leadership role in the Revolution at the Second Continental Congress; there the Virginian delegates were divided into two different groups. These two groups were split between those who wanted to formulate a peaceful solution to the problem, and those who wanted to prepare for military opposition. Henry was a part of the group that wanted to prepare for military resistance and he was the one who established a plan that would help them do exactly that. During that time Henry gave his well-known speech that ended with his most famous words “Give me liberty, or give me death!” After this famous speech Henry’s military career continued but it was short lived. After this career ended a new political career was just beginning to start. Henry was elected to one of the last of Virginia’s revolutionary conventions where he helped draft the fifteenth and sixteenth articles for the Virginia Declaration of Rights document. Continually, after the adoption of Virginia’s constitution in June 1776 Henry was elected for office. He was the first elected governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and started out by serving three

With many successes in his life like, winning a seat in the House of Burgesses, practicing before the General Court, being a delegate in the Continental Congress, and being governor Henry was able to revolutionize America and fight for American independence. Like Henry’s friend Thomas Jefferson once said “It is not now easy to say what we should have done without Patrick Henry” which proves that the American Revolution and the struggle for American independence would not have been possible without our substantial leader, Patrick Henry (Biography of Patrick