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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Barboursville Barboursville Vineyards
and Winery
Montpelier Station Montpelier
Plantation
Orange Graham Cemetery
Orange St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Private or family
graveyards
Orange County, Virginia
| Politicians buried
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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).
Slaveowner.
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.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1845
(age about
82 years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Barboursville
Vineyards and Winery
Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia
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James Barbour (1775-1842) —
of Barboursville, Orange
County, Va.
Born near Gordonsville, Orange
County, Va., June 10,
1775.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1812; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1809; Governor of
Virginia, 1812-14; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1815-25; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1828-29; delegate to Whig National Convention
from Virginia, 1839 (Convention President; speaker).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Barboursville, Orange
County, Va., June 7,
1842 (age 66 years, 362
days).
Interment at Barboursville Vineyards and Winery.
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Montpelier
Plantation
Highway VA 20
Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1966
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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.
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.
He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days).
Interment at Montpelier Plantation.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of William
Taylor Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolley
Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | 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. |
| | | The city
of Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Mount
Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Madison, Iowa, were named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Madison (built 1942 at Houston,
Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
M. Buchanan
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
M. Edmunds
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
Turner
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison Mullen
— James
M. Candler
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
M. Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — 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 — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James
Madison and the Making of America |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Dolley Madison (1768-1849) —
also known as Dorothea Dandridge Payne; Dolley
Todd —
Born in New Garden (now part of Greensboro), Guilford
County, N.C., May 20,
1768.
First
Lady of the United States, 1809-17.
Female.
Quaker;
later Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 12,
1849 (age 81 years, 53
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1858 at Montpelier
Plantation.
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William Taylor Madison (1762-1843) —
also known as William Madison —
of Madison
County, Va.
Born in Orange
County, Va., May 1,
1762.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1791-94, 1804-11 (Culpeper County
1791-94, Madison County 1804-11); general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Madison
County, Va., July 19,
1843 (age 81 years, 79
days).
Interment at Montpelier Plantation.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of James
Madison (1751-1836) (who married Dolley
Madison); married, December
20, 1783, to Francis Throckmorton; first cousin once removed of
George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Graham
Cemetery
Orange, Orange County, Virginia
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Nathaniel B. Early Jr. (1902-1979) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., March 4,
1902.
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Virginia, 1941-47.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
12, 1979 (age 77 years, 253
days).
Interment at Graham Cemetery.
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Norman Calvin Bailey, Sr. (1890-1969) —
also known as Norman C. Bailey —
of Orange, Orange
County, Va.
Born in Orange
County, Va., June 22,
1890.
Democrat. Wholesale
grocer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1944-57.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary.
Died July 23,
1969 (age 79 years, 31
days).
Interment at Graham Cemetery.
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St. Thomas
Episcopal Church
Orange, Orange County, Virginia
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