McHenry went on to serve at the national level as a member of the Continental Congress (1783-1786) and, in 1787, he became a delegate to the federal Constitutional Convention. Following the convention, McHenry returned to state politics for a number of years as a member of the Maryland state assembly (1787-1796).

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McHenry was born into a Presbyterian Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots family in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland in 1753.

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From 1789 to 1791, McHenry sat in the state assembly and in the years 1791-96 again in the senate. A staunch Federalist, he then accepted Washington’s offer of the post of Secretary of War and held it into the administration of John Adams. McHenry looked to Hamilton rather than to Adams for leadership.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. McHenry is a city in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It is an outer suburb, part of the Chicago metropolitan area and is located about 56 miles northwest of Chicago and 64 miles southwest of Milwaukee. The population was 26,992 at the 2010 census.

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In 1798 construction began to expand upon Fort Whetstone with brick and stone masonry to create a new, more permanent, structure. The new fort was dubbed Fort McHenry, named after George Washington’s Secretary of War, and Baltimore native, James McHenry.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: James McHenry. Convention Contributions: Arrived May 28, departed June 1, returned to the Convention August 6, remained through the signing of the Constitution.

Carroll won a seat in the first U.S. House of Representatives, where he voted for most Federalist measures. In 1791 his friend George Washington named him to the commission to survey and define the District of Columbia, an area in which Carroll held extensive land.

The new government in this form is nothing more than a second edition of [the Continental] Congress in two volumes, instead of one, and perhaps with very few amendments.” He was also a friend and ally of George Washington.

Luther Martin (February 20, 1748, New Brunswick, New Jersey – July 8, 1826, New York, New York) was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who left the Constitutional Convention early because he felt the Constitution violated states’ rights. …

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He did sign the Declaration. Chase believed in a strong central government. A delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Maryland, Luther Martin vociferously fought for the rights of the various smaller states and vociferously opposed the establishment of a strong central government.