Virginia Conventions
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The Virginia Conventions were assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth of Virginia superior to General Assembly legislation
The Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829–1830 met in Richmond, Virginia. A convention of three generations, the last gathering of Revolutionary era giants
Raleigh Tavern, Colonial Williamsburg First Virginia Convention met here, 1774
Peyton Randolph 1774, 1775
Edmund Pendleton 1776, 1788
Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth pos
Virginia Conventions
…Episcopal Church on March 20, 1775. Delegates again chose a presiding officer and they elected delegates to the Continental Congress. At the convention, Patrick Henry proposed arming the Virginia militia and delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech to rally support for the measure. It was resolved…
Portrait by George Bagby Matthews after Thomas Sully, c. 1891
View of Rural Plains near Totopotomoy Creek in Virginia. Henry was reportedly married to Sarah Shelton in the parlor.
Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause (George Cooke, c. 1834)
Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses (Peter F. Rothermel, 1851)