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Family of James Madison: March 4, 1809 — March 4, 1817 James and Dolley Madison and John: Prior to becoming First Lady and marrying the President, Dolley Madison was a widow who had two children, John Payne Todd and William Temple Todd, from a previous marriage to Quaker lawyer John Todd.
Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry. He is also believed to be a direct descendant of John Punch, a colonial-era slave born in modern-day Cameroon. [2] There is no evidence that any president has had Indigenous American ancestry.
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 ]
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.
Mary Stuart's daughter, Rosalie Smith (1870–1956), married an aforementioned descendant of the James River family, Dr. Isaac Carrington Harrison; Carrington again was a descendant of Edmund Harrison of the Oaks, and a son of Rev. J. Hartwell Harrison. Carrington was the first of three by that name to take an M.D. at the university. [63]
President Image Historic site George Washington: George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Colonial Beach, Virginia John Adams: John Adams Birthplace, Quincy, Massachusetts James Madison: Belle Grove Plantation, Port Conway, Virginia James Monroe: James Monroe Family Home Site, Colonial Beach, Virginia John Quincy Adams
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.
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 ...