William Henry Fitzhugh

William Henry Fitzhugh (March 9, 1792 – May 21, 1830) was Virginia planter and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as well as in the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829–1830 and as an officer of the American Colonization Society. Early and family life William Henry Fitzhugh was born at Chatham, in Stafford County, Virginia. His father, William Fitzhugh, owned extensive estates throughout northern Virginia, and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the Second Continental Congress. He had two sisters, Anna Randolph Fitzhugh Craik (1783-1806) and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis. Mary Lee was a noted Episcopalian lay leader and the mother of Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee. He also had two stepsisters. William Henry Fitzhugh married Anna Maria Sarah Goldsborough (1796-1874), daughter of prominent Maryland lawyer and politician Charles Goldsborough, who survived him, but the couple had no children. Career