James Madison
 4. President

James Madison
  Born Port Conway, Virginia
March 16. 1751
 


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  Ancestry English
 
  Married to Dorothea (Dolley) Payne Todd

Born:
Guilford County, North Carolina
May 20. 1768

Died:
Washington DC
July 12. 1849

Married:
Harewood, Virginia
September 15. 1794
 


Dorothea Madison
Dorothea Madison
  Children No children
 

 

- I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
-Thomas Jefferson 1812




-America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.
-James Madison, Federalist No 14, 1787


 -Every man who loves peace,
 every man who loves his
 country, every man who loves
 liberty ought to have it ever
 before his eyes that he may
 cherish in his heart a due
 attachment to the Union of
 America and be able to set a
 due value on the means of
 preserving it.
 -James Madison, Federalist 
 No 41, 1788
  Home Montpelier, Virginia
 
  Education Princeton University, 
Princeton, New Jersey. 
BA 1771

One year postgraduate study at Princeton (1771 - 1772)
 
  Religion
 Episcopalian
  Occupations Politician
 
  Prepresidental offices Member of the Orange County Committee of Safety (1774)
Delegate to the Virginia Convention (1776)
Member of the Virginia Legislature (1776-1777)
Member of the Virginia Executive Council (1778-1779)
Delegate to the Continental Congress (1780-1783 and 1787-1788)
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1784-1786 and 1799-1800)
Delegate to Annapolis Convention (1786)
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787)
Member of the Virginia Ratification Convention (1788)
Member of the U.S House of Representatives (1789 - 1797)
Secretary of State (1801-1809)
 
  Political party Democratic-Republican
 
  Inauguration First term:
March 4. 1809
House of Representatives, Washington DC

Second term:
March 4. 1813
House of Representatives, Washington DC
 
  Age at inauguration
 		 57 
  Died Montpelier, Virginia
June 28.1836
Age 85 years
 
  Books by James Madison Notes on the Federal Convention of 1787
The Papers of James Madison (3 volumes, 1840)
 
 
One day during the War of 1812 the wife of a Federalist drove to the house of Dolly Madison's sister, loosened her long hair, and prayed loudly for the privilege of cutting it off so it could be used to make a rope with which to hang the President.