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Patrick Henry  

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  • Patrick Henry (1736–1799), born in Virginia as a member of the gentry, was a gifted speaker who persuaded the opposition within his influential state to agree to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. As a young man, Henry was not particularly bookish, and rather than continue his education, he apprenticed at fifteen as a clerk to a merchant. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Henry, Patrick]

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