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In September, 1781, when still with la Fayette before the [[Battle of Yorktown]], McHenry was elected to the Maryland State Senate, an office which he held for the ensuing six years. Meanwhile, he was also elected to Congress of which he was a member from 1783 to 1786. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1786, with other Maryland delegates [[Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer]], [[Daniel Carroll]], [[John Francis Mercer]] and [[Luther Martin]]; in 1788 and 1789 he was a member of the General Assembly; and from 1791 to 1795 he again represented his district in the State Senate.
In September, 1781, when still with la Fayette before the [[Battle of Yorktown]], McHenry was elected to the Maryland State Senate, an office which he held for the ensuing six years. Meanwhile, he was also elected to Congress of which he was a member from 1783 to 1786. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1786, with other Maryland delegates [[Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer]], [[Daniel Carroll]], [[John Francis Mercer]] and [[Luther Martin]]; in 1788 and 1789 he was a member of the General Assembly; and from 1791 to 1795 he again represented his district in the State Senate.
McHenry, a student of [[Benjamin Rush]], favored abolition of slavery and believed in the equality of the races. He publicly supported [[Benjamin Banneker]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jc9CAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA185 The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine: Containing Essays on Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Politics, Morals and Manners]</ref> publisher of a well known almanack in 1791, and wrote of him as a stereotypical self-made man.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VDvztz0qq3YC&pg=PA85 Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation]</ref>
==Secretary of War==
==Secretary of War==
==Later life==
==Later life==
From this time he withdrew from public life and lived quietly upon his estates adjacent to the city of Baltimore, where his services to his state and to his country were worthily commemorated by the neighboring works of [[Fort McHenry]], which have permanently preserved his name in the military annals of the nation, and in which, oddly enough the services of another military medical officer have recently been commemorated by the bestowal of his name upon one of its batteries, -Battery Lazear. Living then in elegant retirement but by no means in idleness, Dr. McHenry survived, a respected and honored citizen of the commonwealth, until his death, May 3, 1816.
From this time he withdrew from public life and lived quietly upon his estates adjacent to the city of Baltimore, where his services to his state and to his country were worthily commemorated by the neighboring works of [[Fort McHenry]], which have permanently preserved his name in the military annals of the nation, and in which, oddly enough the services of another military medical officer have recently been commemorated by the bestowal of his name upon one of its batteries, -Battery Lazear. Living then in elegant retirement but by no means in idleness, Dr. McHenry survived, a respected and honored citizen of the commonwealth, until his death, May 3, 1816.
==Quotes==
* "I consider this Negro as fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin or in other words, a striking contradiction to Mr. Hume's doctrine that "the Negroes are naturally inferior to the whites and unsusceptible of attainments in arts and sciences.""<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ny-UAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA116 The American Teacher: Foundations of Education]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RAVl_KwcBuAC&pg=PA55 Ebony Mar. 1964]</ref>
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]
* [[David Hume]]
*[[Otto von Bismarck]]
* [[The Star-Spangled Banner]]
*[[Montesquieu]]
* [[Otto von Bismarck]]
* [[Montesquieu]]
==References==
==References==