Governor John Henry

Governor John Henry. . , Governor John Henry was born at Weston near Vienna November 1750. Upon graduation from Princeton College, he devoted himself to the study of law. He completed his law education at the Middle Temple in England. Upon his return to America in 1775, he was elected to the Maryland Legislature. From 1777 until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, he was by successive re-elections nearly uninterruptedly a member of the Continental Congress. When the Constitution was adopted, Mr. Henry was elected US Senator for Maryland, as a colleague of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, for the term beginning March 4, 1789. He was re-elected in 1795, but resigned in 1797 to become governor of Maryland. Ill health forced him to retire after one year, and he returned to Weston where he died in 1798., Governor John Henry was the son of Col. John Henry and his wife Dorothy Rider. He married Margaret Campbell, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Goldsborough Campbell. He was buried at Weston, but later his remains were brought to Christ Church Cemetery, and this monument was erected to his memory.