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Record for Dorothea Dandridge PAYNE
- [S8049] Find a Grave: PAYNE Dorothea Madison, Dorothea Dandridge "Dolly" Payne Madison.
Presidential First Lady. She was the wife of 4th United States President James Madison. Born in New Garden, North Carolina, she married John Todd, Jr., a lawyer, in 1790. He succumbed to yellow fever in 1793, leaving her with a small son, Payne. Her second marriage was to James Madison, who was then serving as a Congressman from Virginia, and was seventeen years her senior. He was very patient with his stepson Payne who first mismanaged his own affairs and eventually his mothers which left her destitute. She was a great asset to Madison's career. When her husband was appointed Secretary of State by the widowed President Thomas Jefferson in 1801, Dolley assisted him as White House hostess and presided at the first inaugural ball when her husband became Chief Executive in 1809. During the burning of the White House in 1814, she saved many state papers and a portrait of George Washington from the advancing British. Upon her husbands death in 1836 in Virginia, she returned to Washington, D.C. residing on Lafayette Square where she retained a place in Washington society and was granted a lifelong seat on the floor of the House of Representatives. Upon her death she was interred in a brick receiving vault at the Congressional Cemetery, Washington D.C. It was removed in 1852 and placed in the private vault of her niece. The remains were on the move again in 1858 when it was exhumed and transported to the Madison family graveyard at Montpelier and interred behind her husband's monument.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/660/dolley-madison
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Record for John Payne
- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, COLES Mary Payne1743-1808.
She was the mother of Mary Payne Jackson (born c. 1781 died 02-13-1808). She was the mother of First Lady Dorothy "Dolly" Madison, the wife of President James Madison. While visiting her daughter and son-in-law John G. Jackson in Clarksburg (then Virginia) in October of 1807, she suffered a "violent stroke of the dead palsy" and died a week later. West Virginia Highway Historical Marker number MC-103's inscription reads: "In this cemetery lie buried members of the Stonewall Jackson family: his father Jonathan, a sister Elizabeth, his great grandparents John Jackson and wife Elizabeth Cummings. Buried here also are Mrs. Mary Payne Jackson and Mrs. Mary Coles Payne, sister and mother of Dorothy (Dolly) Madison, wife of President James Madison.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8253476/mary-payne
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- [S1834] Wikipedia: James Madison, (Name: Wikipedia;), James Madison.
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751[b] – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.
Madison was born into a prominent slave-owning planter family in Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. Unsatisfied with the weak national government established by the Articles of Confederation, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced a new constitution designed to strengthen republican government against democratic assembly. Madison's Virginia Plan was the basis for the Convention's deliberations, and he was an influential voice at the convention. He became one of the leaders in the movement to ratify the Constitution, and joined Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing The Federalist Papers, a series of pro-ratification essays which remains prominent among works of political science in American history. Madison emerged as an important leader in the House of Representatives and was a close adviser to President George Washington.
During the early 1790s, Madison opposed the economic program and the accompanying centralization of power favored by Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton. Alongside Thomas Jefferson, he organized the Democratic–Republican Party in opposition to Hamilton's Federalist Party. After Jefferson was elected president in 1800, Madison served as his Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809 and supported Jefferson in the case of Marbury v. Madison. While Madison was Secretary of State, Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase, and later, as President, Madison oversaw related disputes in the Northwest territories.
Madison was elected president in 1808. Motivated by the desire for acquiring land held by Britain, Spain, and Native Americans, and after diplomatic protests with a trade embargo failed to end British seizures of American shipped goods, he led the United States into the War of 1812. Although the war ended inconclusively, many Americans viewed the war's outcome as a successful "second war of independence" against Britain. Madison was re-elected in 1812, albeit by a smaller margin. The war convinced Madison of the necessity of a stronger federal government. He presided over the creation of the Second Bank of the United States and the enactment of the protective Tariff of 1816. By treaty or through war, Native American tribes ceded 26,000,000 acres (11,000,000 ha) of land to the United States under Madison's presidency.
Retiring from public office at the end of his presidency in 1817, Madison returned to his plantation, Montpelier, and died there in 1836. During his lifetime, Madison was a slave owner. In 1783, at the height of Revolutionary politics, Madison freed one of his slaves. However, Madison did not free any slaves in his will. Among historians, Madison is considered one of the most important Founding Fathers of the United States. Leading historians have generally ranked him as an above-average president, although they are critical of his endorsement of slavery and his leadership during the War of 1812. Madison's name is commemorated in many landmarks across the nation, both publicly and privately, with prominent examples including Madison Square Garden, James Madison University, and the USS James Madison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison
- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), President MADISON James 1751-1836 (Veteran) - 4th President of the United States.
4th United States President. He was the co-author of the Federalist Papers and Father of the American Constitution. He was born in Port Conway, Virginia, on a plantation to a wealthy father and a mother who was the daughter of a rich tobacco merchant. He was sickly, suffering from seizures which would plague him throughout his life. James Madison married widow Dorothea "Dolley" Dandridge (Payne) Todd in 1794. Madison was chief executive throughout the War of 1812, although he displayed little understanding of military matters. His administration gave the country a new identity with an upsurge of nationalism, the Star Spangled Banner; the slogans "Don't give up the ship," "Free Trade and Sailor's Rights; historic events such as Commodore Perry's victory on Lake Erie, and Andrew Jackson and Battle of New Orleans; and the ship, the USS Constitution with its many victories. She was dubbed "Old Ironsides," is preserved as a national treasure, and can be seen today at Pier 1 of the former Charlestown Navy Yard at one end of Boston's Freedom Trail. It was on Madison's watch that the British burned the public buildings of Washington, D.C. He was influenced by his Secretary of War who insisted Washington was not a target of the British. The aging President died quietly at breakfast in his room where he was confined for chronic rheumatism and liver dysfunction at the age of eighty-five. A small gathering of slaves, and family friends witnessed his burial the next day at the family cemetery located on the estate. Many physical legacy reminders remain today: The little farmhouse where he was born, long since razed, has only an historic marker to indicate the spot. It is near the large plantation mansion "Montpelier," the lifelong home of James Madison as well as three generations of the family. The mansion's core was constructed by his father. Today, the property is owned and exhibited by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Octagon Home in Washington, D.C., located a few blocks from the White House, was the Madisons' temporary home after the burning of the White House. President Madison signed the Treaty of Ghent in the upstairs parlor which declared England and America at peace. The James Madison Museum is located in Orange, Virginia, and contains the nation's best collection of Madison artifacts. The Madison Family Cemetery is stunning as well as historic. It is surrounded by a brick wall with an iron gate, simply marked "Madison." It is accessible by a dirt road, very isolated, and not much changed from the days of the President. It not only is the final resting place of the last founding father who formulated the Constitution, but also of Dolley who was returned in death penniless after a massive state funeral in Washington, D.C. This is the place where John Quincy Adams came to deliver a public oration lauding the man for his service to the fledgling nation.
"MADISON
BORN MARCH 16TH 1751
DIED JUNE 28TH 1836"
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