Henry Laurens
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 232 years ago |
Date of birth | March 6,1724 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Charleston |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 8,1792 |
Died | Charleston |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Previous office | President of the Continental Congress (1777–1778) |
Place of burial | South Carolina, United States |
Children | John Laurens |
Martha Laurens Ramsay | |
James Laurens | |
Mary Eleanor Laurens Pinckney | |
Henry Laurens, Jr. | |
Cremation | Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, United States |
Grandchildren | Frances Eleanor Laurens |
John Ball Laurens | |
Edward Rutledge Laurens | |
Previous position | President of the United States in Congress Assembled (1777–1778) |
Great grandchild | Caroline Laurens Maffitt |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 700473 |
Henry Laurens Life story
Henry Laurens was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president.