George Wythe
(Born 1726, died 1806)
"No man ever left behind him a character
more venerated than George Wythe", Thomas Jefferson wrote. "His virtue
was of the purest tint; his integrity inflexible, and his justice exact;
of warm patriotism, and devoted as he was to liberty, and the natural and
equal rights of man, he might truly be called the Cato of his country.
" He died and was buried where Patrick Henry gave his "give me liberty
or give me death" speech.