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James Lawson Kemper (1823-1895) —
of Virginia.
Born in Madison
County, Va., June 11,
1823.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1853; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
Virginia, 1874-78.
Died in Orange
County, Va., April 7,
1895 (age 71 years, 300
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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William Fitzhugh Gordon (1787-1858) —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., January
13, 1787.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Virginia
state house of delegates, 1818-29; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1830-35 (10th District 1830-33,
12th District 1833-35).
Died in Albemarle
County, Va., August
28, 1858 (age 71 years, 227
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Robert Taylor (1763-1845) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, 1763.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1804; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 11th District, 1825-27.
Died in 1845
(age about
82 years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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James Madison (1751-1836) —
also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights" —
of Virginia.
Born in Port Conway, King George
County, Va., March 16,
1751.
Son of James Madison and Eleanor (Conway) Madison.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th
District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801-09; President
of the United States, 1809-17.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days). He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $5,000
bill from about 1915 until 1946.
Interment at Montpelier Plantation.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison and Eleanor (Conway) Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolly (Payne) Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); second cousin of George
Madison and Zachary
Taylor; second cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are named
for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
Madison Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis
Ketcham, James
Madison : A Biography — Garry Wills, James
Madison — Robert Allen Rutland, The
Presidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Samuel
Kernell, ed., James
Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican
Government |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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