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James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 (March 5, 1750, Old Style), at the Belle Grove plantation near Port Conway in the Colony of Virginia, to James Madison Sr. and Eleanor Madison. His family had lived in Virginia since the mid-17th century. [9] Madison's maternal grandfather, Francis Conway, was a prominent planter and tobacco merchant. [10]
John Scott Harrison is the only person to be both a child of a U.S. president and a parent of another U.S. president, being a son of William Henry Harrison and the father of Benjamin Harrison. Five presidents fathered no (known, biological) children: George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and James Buchanan.
Madison's father James Madison Sr. left his son several slaves in his will: [13] "slaves already given to him" [13] "Billy, which he has since sold" [13] "Davey, Sinnar, Winney, Alexander, John, Amy, &c." [13] When Madison moved to Washington, D.C. in 1801, to serve as the secretary of state of President Jefferson, Madison brought slaves from ...
Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation.
The Comeback Kid, coined by press after strong second place showing in 1992 New Hampshire primary, following polling slump. [ 171 ] Slick Willie , [ 172 ] a term originally coined when he was Governor of Arkansas and popularized by newspaper Pine Bluff Commercial , whose staff disagreed with his political views.
Randolph's eighth child, James Madison Randolph, was born at the President's House on January 17, 1806. [2] From 1803 to 1807, her husband Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. served in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. [2] He had campaigned against "an ardent supporter" of Jefferson. [49]
James Daniel Maddison (born 23 November 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team. Maddison began his career with Coventry City before joining Norwich City in 2016. He spent some of the 2016–17 season on loan at Scottish Premiership ...
Col. James Madison Sr. (March 27, 1723 – February 27, 1801) was a prominent Virginia planter and politician who served as a colonel in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He inherited Mount Pleasant, later known as Montpelier , a large tobacco plantation in Orange County, Virginia and, with the acquisition of more ...