Life Facts

Personal:
• First Lady: Dolley Madison, Wife • Wife's Maiden Name: Dolley Payne Todd • Number of Children: None • Education Level: College • School Attended: Princeton University • Religion: Episcopalian • Profession: farmer, planter • Military Service: Colonel
Public Service:
• Dates of Presidency: 3/4/1809 - 3/3/1817
• Presidency Number: 4
• Number of Terms: 2
• Why Presidency Ended: End of 2nd term
• Party: Democratic-Republican
• His Vice President(s): George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
• Cabinet Service: Secretary of State (Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809) • House of Representatives: Virginia (1789-1797) • Colonial Government: VA House of Delegates (1776-1777), Continental Congress (1780-1783) • Other Offices: Virginia House of Delegates; Delegate to the Virginia Convention; Member of the Council of State; Delegate to the Annapolis Convention
Footnotes
Methodology and Resources
Presidential Places

Birthplace:
Conway House
Gravesite: Montpelier Museum: The James Madison Museum
Reference Material

Bibliography
Inaugural Address
Related Links
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• From Montpelier - Montpelier Station,VA. Guests included: Jack Rakove, Professor of History, Stanford University; Holly Shulman, Research Associate Professor, University of Virginia, and Co-Editor
of the Papers of Dolley Madison; Kathleen Stiso Mullins, Executive Director, Montpelier; and Lynne Lewis, Senior Archaeologist, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Watch | Order Videotape • CHAT with Gerard W. Gawalt, an American History Specialist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Read the Transcript • Programming on James Madison: • Re-air of LIVE from Montpelier Watch • Discovering Madison -- Montpelier Video Watch • Madison and the Burning of Washington D.C. Watch • Madison Gravesites Watch • Dolley Madison at Montpelier Watch • Booknotes with Lance Banning on The Sacred Fire of Liberty Watch • Booknotes with Jack Rakove on Original Meanings Watch
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