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James Madison (1751-1836)
4th president of the United States: 1809-1817
James Madison
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James Madison
Co-author of the Federalist Papers, Madison was Jefferson's Secretary of State. The event that dominated his presidency was the War of 1812, which Congress declared at his request.
Elected: 1808, 1812
The Early Years
Madison was born at the home of his maternal grandparents at Port Conway, Virginia. His father was the owner of a sizable estate. Madison was tutored privately until he entered the College of New J ...
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James Madison, Jr.
Madison was our smallest President, weighing 100 pounds, and standing 5 feet and 4 inches tall.
Madison was the first President to wear trousers instead of knee breeches.
James Madison was one of two Presidents to sign the U.S. Constitution.
Madison, Wisconsin is named after James Madison.
Madison was a half first cousin twice removed of George Washington and a second cousin of Zachary Taylor.
During the War of 1812 Madison was under enemy fire. ...
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by Bruce G. Kauffmann
Several years after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, an admirer of James Madison's pinned on him the label "Father of the Constitution." Madison promptly disavowed the title, but despite his denial the moniker stuck, and it has been a cause for debate among historians ever since.
Was Madison the "Father of the Constitution?" Not if by "father" we mean the sole male progenitor, for as Madison himself had shown years earlier in Federalist 38, while most governm ...
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