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Patrick Henry

1736 - 1799

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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "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. A native of Hanover County, Virginia, Henry was primarily educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, as well as assisting his father-in-law at Hanover Tavern, he became a lawyer through self-study. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patrick Henry has received more than 3,106,283 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Patrick Henry is the 8,562nd most popular politician (up from 8,904th in 2019), the 3,020th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,318th in 2019) and the 186th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Patrick Henry ranks 8,562 out of 15,577Before him are Agapenor, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Tevfik Esenç, Mohammad bin Salman, Lucius Scribonius Libo, and Ada of Caria. After him are Väinö Tanner, Nebojša Radmanović, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Thomas A. Hendricks, Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, and Vladimir of Novgorod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Patrick Henry ranks 16Before him are Rudolf Erich Raspe, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Edward Waring, and Anton Graff. After him are Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Infanta Maria Ana Francisca of Portugal, Daniel Morgan, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Joseph Pickford. Among people deceased in 1799, Patrick Henry ranks 21Before him are Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Jan Ingenhousz, Jean-Charles de Borda, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Jean-François Marmontel, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. After him are Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, William Curtis, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patrick Henry ranks 3,020 out of 18,182Before him are Eric Hoffer (1898), Charles Barkley (1963), Chad Smith (1961), Ronald Evans (1933), John Ritter (1948), and John Basilone (1916). After him are Madeleine Astor (1893), Kate Walsh (1967), Tico Torres (1953), Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), Patti Page (1927), and Blake Lively (1987).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Patrick Henry ranks 186Before him are Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Babushka Lady (1930), Winfield Scott (1786), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Edith Roosevelt (1861), and James F. Byrnes (1882). After him are Thomas A. Hendricks (1819), Elihu Root (1845), Dean Rusk (1909), Jim Garrison (1921), James S. Sherman (1855), and Marie Smith Jones (1918).