History of Madison County Mississippi United States of America

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A Biography of Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry, representative, was born in Madison county, Miss., Feb. 12, 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 throughout the war, returning home as major of the 14th consolidated Mississippi regiment. He engaged in farming until 1873, when he began to practise law at Brandon, Miss. 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 55th, 56th, 57th congresses, 1897-1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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