Madison, James

3/16/1751

Port Conway, Virginia

1774- Delegate to Williamsburg, VA Convention
1776- Elected to serve in convention to form Contitution of state of Virginia; member of 1st General Assembly of VA
1778- VA Executive Council
1780-83, 1786-88- Elected to Constitutional Congress
1784- Elected to Virginia Legislature
1787- Delegate from VA to Constitutional Convention
Chief author of the Bill of Rights
Known as "The Father of the Constitution"
Co-author of "The Federalist"
1789-1797- Member of House of Representatives from VA
1801-1809- Secretary of State under Jefferson
March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1817- Became fourth president of the United States (Decomcratic-Republic; defeated Charles Cotesworth Pinckney)
Declared War of 1812
1826- Became Rector (now called President) of University of Virginia
1829- Served in Virginia Convention for Revision of the Constitution

Founder of American Whig Society at Princeton
1772- Graduated from Princeton University

4th president of the United States, "Father of the Constitution," Legislature

James Madison

Eleanor Conway

Dolly Payne Todd, m. 9/15/1794

American