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Soldier-Statesmen of the
Constitution
Less than five years after
his first landing in the American colonies, James McHenry, a well-education
Scots-Irish immigrant, was serving with the Continental Army outside Boston
(Massachusetts), and his military experience led him into a lengthy career
of public service where he forcefully and consistently upheld the ideal of a
strong central government. This booklet on James McHenry is one in a series
on Revolutionary War soldiers who later signed the U.S. Constitution. The
booklet reviews his first years in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), hi.)
military service as a physician under George Washington and the Marquis de
Lafayette, and his public service after the War as a Maryland representative
to the Constitutional Convention and as Secretary of War under Presidents
George Washington and John Adams. Personal data about McHenry and a
bibliographic essay of further readings are also included. (DJC)
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more about him here
also
The
Life and Correspondence of James McHenry
By Bernard C. Steiner (1907) |
