JAMES MADISON

INFORMATION

• Birth: March 16, 1751
• Port Conway, Virginia
• Death: June 28, 1836
• Montpelier, Virginia
• Fourth president (1809-1817)

EARLY LIFE

• Rich family
• Bording school in King and Queen County
• Tutored at Montpelier by Thomas Martin
• Madison entered the College of New Jersey

What had he down?!
1) Constitutional Convention
1. He was known as the father of constitution.

2. 1787, Madison made plan of constitution.

3. On September 17, 1787, a total of 39 delegates signed the Constitution

In 1789, Madison sponsored the Bill of Rights,

2) The War of 1812
The war of 1812 was kind of a lost in James Madison's presidency.
1) No funds to support the war.
2)In August 1814 British troops marched into Washington, D.C., and burned the Executive Mansion, the Capitol, and several other government buildings.

Retirement
1)Madison retired to Montpelier in 1817.
2)He supported Jefferson in founding the University of Virginia.
3)He also worked to end slavery. 4) Madison died on June 28, 1836.

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