Fourth Annual Governor Henry Lecture:

"Patrick Henry and John Marshall
The 18th Century Legal Dream Team"


Dr. Charles F. Hobson, editor of the Papers of John Marshall, will present the Fourth Annual Governor Henry Lecture at Charlotte Court House on Sunday, April 18, and again at the Library of Virginia on Monday, April 19, 2004.

His lecture will treat Patrick Henry and John Marshall’s collaboration between on several controversial legal cases in the 1790s as well as their political affinity in the tumultuous decade after the two men statesmen had taken opposite views about Virginia’s ratification of the Constitution in 1788. As editor of the definitive Papers of John Marshall - with eleven volumes published to date by the University of North Carolina Press - Hobson brings to his subject an unusual mastery of the period and its sources.

A graduate of Brown University, Charles F. Hobson took his doctorate in history from Emory University in 1971. He is the author of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law, published by the University Press of Kansas in 1996 and now available in paperback as well.

Prior to his appointment in 1979 as editor of the Papers of John Marshall at the College of William and Mary and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Hobson was coeditor of the Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia. In 1996 he was elected by his peers to the presidency of the Association for Documentary Editing. Hobson has written and lectured extensively about American legal history on both sides of the Atlantic.

The annual Governor Henry Lecture is jointly sponsored by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation and the Library of Virginia. The events are open to the public at no charge.

Dr. Hobson’s lecture in the historic courthouse at Charlotte Court House is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 18, 2004.

Dr. Hobson’s lecture at the Library of Virginia is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 19, 2004. Parking is available at the Library of Virginia at no charge.

The Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation owns and operates Red Hill, the patriot’s last home and burial place overlooking the Staunton River in Charlotte County, Virginia.

The Library of Virginia holds the world's most extensive collection of material about the Old Dominion and has been a steward of the commonwealth's documentary and printed heritage since 1823.





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