HENRY
HENRY
liberty or death. They became impatient of
speech — their souls were on fire for action." The
resolutions were adopted. In ;May he led a volun-
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teer force against Lord Dunmore, the royal
governor, to oblige him to restore or pay for
gunpowder taken from the public magazine, and
he tlius bec.ime the leader in resistance by arras
to British authority in Virginia. The Virginia
convention of 1775 made him commander of all
the Virginia forces and during his absence in
Philadelphia on attendance at the second session of
the Continental congress, commissioned him colo-
nel of the 1st Virginia regiment. When the Vir-
ginia troops were taken into the Continental army
congress commissioned a subordinate, brigadier-
general, and offered a single regiment to Colonel
Henrj', who declined any commission from that
body. He was elected to the Virginia conven-
tion of May, 1776, charged with " the care of the
republic,"' the royal governor having fled. This
convention framed a new constitution and
elected Henry the first governor of the state on
the first ballot. He wjis re-elected in 1777, 1778,
1784 and 1785 and in 1786 declined a re-election.
In 1777 he planned and sent out the George
Rogers Clarke expedition which conquered the
northwest, and would not ratify the treaty with
Great Britain until the northwest posts were
surrendered as agreed by the treaty. He served
in the Virginia convention that ratified the Fed-
eral constitution, and after vehemently opposing
it as dangerous to the liberties of the people he
offered amendments to the instrument which
were partially adopted. In 1794 he declined the
appointment of U.S. senator made by Gov. Henry
Lee and withdrew from public life. In 1795 he
declined the position of secretary of state in
President Washington's cabinet, in 1796 the posi-
tion of justice of tiie U.S. supreme court and the
nomination for governor of Virginia, and in
1797, the mission to France offered by President
Adam.s. In 1799 lie allowed hiuiself to be elected
to the state legislature in order to oppose the
Virginia resolutions of 1798, which he deemed
dangerous, but he died before taking his seat.
His first wife died in 1775. and on Oct. 9, 1777, he
married as his second wife, Dorothea Spotswood
Dandridge, a granddaughter of Gov. Alexander
Spotswood. His life was written by William
Wirt (1817) ; by Alexander H. Everett in Sparks'
"American Biography" (1844-48); by Moses
Coit Tyler in " American Statesmen " (1887), and
by his grandson. William Wirt Henry (3 vols.,
1891-92). His body lies in a grave on the estate
in Charlotte county wliere he formerly lived, and
the simple gravestone is inscribed with the one
line. " His Fame His Best Epitaph." He died in
Rod Hill. Charlotte county, Va., June 6, 1799.
HENRY, Patrick, representative, was born in Madison county, Miss.. Feb. 13, 1843 ; son of Patrick and Bettie (West) Henry, grandson of William Henry, of Kentucky, and a descendant of the Rev. Robert Henry, of Charlotte county, Va. He entered Mississippi college at Clinton, and afterward Madison college at Sharon, Miss., and when the civil war began he was a student at the Nashville, Tenn., military college. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service in the 6th Mississippi Infantry regiment and served tliroughout the war, returning home as major of the 14th consolidated Mississippi regi- ment. He engaged in farming until 1873, when he began to practise law at Brandon, 3Iiss. He was a member of the state legislature in 1890, and a delegate from the state at large to the state constitutional convention in the same year ; and was a Democratic representative from the seventh congressional district in the ooth, 56th, 57th congre,«ses. 1807-l<.t03.
HENRY, Robert, educator, was born in Charleston, S.C, Dec. 6, 1792. He was graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1814, and returned to his native city in 1816, where he preached to a French Huguenot congregation until 1818. He then accepted the chair of logic and moral philosophy in South Carolina college, and was later transferred to the professorship of metaphysics and political philosophy. He was president of the college, 1834-35 and 1842-45 ; professor of metaphysics and belles-lettres from 1839, and for a time was acting professor of Greek. He is the autiior of numerous pamphlets and contributions to periodicals. He died in Columbia. S.C, Feb. 6, 18.56.
HENRY, Robert Lee, representative, was born ill Lin.l.Mi. T.'xas. May 12. 1864 : son of Capt. Frani-is Marion and ]\laiy E. (Taylor) Henry, and grandson of Henry Henry, of Tennessee. He re- moved to Bowie county in 1878. and was grad- uated from the University of Texas. M.A.. with valedictorian honors in 1885. He was admitted
