Harman Blennerhassett, English-Irish lawyer and politician (died 1831)

Harman Blennerhassett

Anglo-Irish lawyer and plantation owner (1764–1831)

Harman Blennerhassett was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, a member of the Society of United Irishmen who emigrated in advance of their rebellion in 1798 to become a socially and politically distinguished plantation owner in then-western Virginia. Implicated in the Burr conspiracy, an…