Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.  | James Madison (1751-1836) — also known as"Father of the Constitution and the Bill ofRights" —of Virginia. Born in Port Conway,King GeorgeCounty, Va.,March16, 1751.Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the RevolutionaryWar; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776;Delegateto 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, 5thDistrict 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97);U.S.Secretary of State, 1801-09;Presidentof the United States, 1809-17.Episcopalian.Englishancestry.He was elected in 1905 to theHallof Fame for Great Americans.Slaveowner. Died in Montpelier,OrangeCounty, Va.,June 28,1836 (age85 years, 104days).Interment atMontpelierPlantation, Montpelier Station, Va.| |  Relatives: Sonof James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;brother ofWilliamTaylor Madison; married,September15, 1794, toDolleyTodd (sister-in-law ofRichardCutts andJohnGeorge Jackson); first cousin once removed ofGeorgeMadison; first cousin twice removed ofEdmundPendleton; second cousin ofZacharyTaylor; second cousin once removed ofJohnPenn,JohnPendleton Jr.,NathanielPendleton andColebyChew; second cousin twice removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton,SamuelBullitt Churchill andJosephHenry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed ofWilliamBarret Pendleton,GeorgeCassety Pendleton,JohnOverton Pendleton,HubbardT. Smith,BickertonLyle Winston,CharlesM. Pendleton,ElliotWoolfolk Major,EdgarBailey Woolfolk andDanielMicajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed ofCharlesSumner Pendleton andSidneyFletcher Taliaferro; third cousin ofClementF. Dorsey,PhilipClayton Pendleton,EdmundHenry Pendleton andNathanaelGreene Pendleton; third cousin once removed ofGabrielSlaughter,AndrewDorsey,PhilipColeman Pendleton andGeorgeHunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed ofRobertPryor Henry,JohnFlournoy Henry,GustavusAdolphus Henry,DavidShelby Walker,AlexanderWarfield Dorsey,FrancisKey Pendleton andCharlesRittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesRice Slaughter,JamesDavid Walker,DavidShelby Walker Jr. andEliHuston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin ofWilliamByrd III; fourth cousin once removed ofCharlesWilling Byrd. | | |  | Political families:Jackson#1 family of West Virginia;Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | Cross-reference:EdwardColes | | |  | Madison counties inAla.,Ark.,Fla.,Ga.,Idaho,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Ky.,La.,Miss.,Mo.,Mont.,Neb.,N.Y.,N.C.,Ohio,Tenn.,Tex. andVa. arenamed for him. | | |  | ThecityofMadison,Wisconsin, isnamed forhim. —MountMadison, in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. —FortMadison (1808-13), and the subsequentcityofFortMadison, Iowa, werenamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS James Madison (built 1942 atHouston,Texas; scrapped 1966) wasnamed forhim. | | |  | Other politicians named for him:JamesMadison Broom—JamesMadison Hite Beale—JamesMadison Porter—JamesM. Buchanan—JamesMadison Gregg—J.Madison Wells—JamesM. Tarleton—JamesMadison Hughes—JamesM. Marvin—JamesM. Edmunds—JamesMadison Gaylord—JamesM. Leach—JamesTurner—JamesM. Harvey—JamesM. Seymour—JamesMadison Bowler—JamesMadison Barker—JamesMadison Mullen—JamesM. Candler—JamesMadison McKinney—JamesM. Morton—JamesMadison Barrett, Sr.—JamesM. Gudger, Jr.—JamesMadison Morton, Jr.—JamesMadison Woodard—JamesM. Waddell, Jr. | | |  | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46. | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | |  | Books about James Madison: Ralph LouisKetcham,JamesMadison : A Biography — Garry Wills,JamesMadison — Robert Allen Rutland,ThePresidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami,YoungPatriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan andThe Revolution That Created The Constitution — SamuelKernell, ed.,JamesMadison: The Theory and Practice of RepublicanGovernment — Kevin R. C. Gutzman,JamesMadison and the Making of America | | |  | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | | William Taylor Madison (1762-1843) — also known asWilliam Madison — ofMadisonCounty, Va.Born inOrangeCounty, Va.,May 1,1762.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1791-94, 1804-11 (Culpeper County1791-94, Madison County 1804-11); general in the U.S. Army during theWar of 1812.Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Died inMadisonCounty, Va.,July 19,1843 (age81 years, 79days).Interment atMontpelierPlantation, Montpelier Station, Va.| |  Relatives: Sonof James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;brother ofJamesMadison (1751-1836) (who marriedDolleyMadison); married,December20, 1783, to Francis Throckmorton; first cousin once removed ofGeorgeMadison; first cousin twice removed ofEdmundPendleton; second cousin ofZacharyTaylor; second cousin once removed ofJohnPenn,JohnPendleton Jr.,NathanielPendleton andColebyChew; second cousin twice removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton,SamuelBullitt Churchill andJosephHenry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed ofWilliamBarret Pendleton,GeorgeCassety Pendleton,JohnOverton Pendleton,HubbardT. Smith,BickertonLyle Winston,CharlesM. Pendleton,ElliotWoolfolk Major,EdgarBailey Woolfolk andDanielMicajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed ofCharlesSumner Pendleton andSidneyFletcher Taliaferro; third cousin ofClementF. Dorsey,PhilipClayton Pendleton,EdmundHenry Pendleton andNathanaelGreene Pendleton; third cousin once removed ofGabrielSlaughter,AndrewDorsey,PhilipColeman Pendleton andGeorgeHunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed ofRobertPryor Henry,JohnFlournoy Henry,GustavusAdolphus Henry,DavidShelby Walker,AlexanderWarfield Dorsey,FrancisKey Pendleton andCharlesRittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesRice Slaughter,JamesDavid Walker,DavidShelby Walker Jr. andEliHuston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin ofWilliamByrd III; fourth cousin once removed ofCharlesWilling Byrd. | | |  | Political family:Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | George Madison (1763-1816) — of Kentucky. Born in Augusta County (part now inRockinghamCounty), Va., June,1763.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;Kentuckyauditor of public accounts, 1796-1816; major in the U.S. Armyduring the War of 1812;Governor ofKentucky, 1816; died in office 1816.Died oftuberculosis,in Paris,BourbonCounty, Ky.,October14, 1816 (age53 years, 0days).Interment atFrankfortCemetery, Frankfort, Ky.| |  Relatives: Sonof John Madison and Agatha (Strother) Madison; married,February11, 1796, to Jane Smith; first cousin once removed ofJamesMadison andWilliamTaylor Madison; first cousin thrice removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,JosephHenry Pendleton andJamesFrancis Buckner Jr.; first cousin four times removed ofWilliamBarret Pendleton,JohnOverton Pendleton andBickertonLyle Winston; second cousin once removed ofJohnWalker,JohnTyler (1747-1813),FrancisWalker,ClementF. Dorsey andZacharyTaylor; second cousin twice removed ofAndrewDorsey,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton andAylettHawes Buckner; second cousin thrice removed ofDavidShelby Walker andAlexanderWarfield Dorsey; second cousin four times removed ofJamesDavid Walker,DavidShelby Walker Jr.,EliHuston Brown Jr.,SidneyFletcher Taliaferro andMaxRogers Strother; second cousin five times removed ofAlbinOwings Jr. andEliHuston Brown III; third cousin ofRobertBrooke,MeriwetherLewis,RichardAylett Buckner andJohnTyler (1790-1862); third cousin once removed ofFrancisTaliaferro Helm,ThomasWalker Gilmer,AyletteBuckner,DavidGardiner Tyler andLyonGardiner Tyler; third cousin twice removed ofCharlesJohn Helm,RobertThomas Brooke,HubbardDozier Helm andGeorgeWashington Thornton Beck; third cousin thrice removed ofHubbardT. Smith,AdeleGoodwyn McNeel,KeyPittman,VailMontgomery Pittman andBronsonMurray Cutting. | | |  | Political family:Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Dolley Madison (1768-1849) — also known asDorothea Dandridge Payne;DolleyTodd —Born in New Garden (now part of Greensboro),GuilfordCounty, N.C.,May 20,1768.FirstLady of the United States, 1809-17.Female.Quaker;laterEpiscopalian.Slaveowner. Died inWashington,D.C.,July 12,1849 (age81 years, 53days).Original interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1858 atMontpelierPlantation, Montpelier Station, Va. | | Richard Cutts (1771-1845) — of Pepperell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Saco,YorkCounty, Maine,June 28,1771.Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05,14th District 1805-13);imprisonedfordebt,1828.Died inWashington,D.C.,April 7,1845 (age73 years, 283days).Original interment atSt.John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.;reinterment in 1857 atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | John George Jackson (1777-1825) — also known asJohn G. Jackson — of Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, Va. (now W.Va.).Born in Buckhannon, Lewis County, Va. (nowUpshurCounty, W.Va.),September22, 1777.Democrat. Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1798-1801, 1811-12;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1803-10, 1813-17 (at-large 1803-07,1st District 1807-10, 1813-17);U.S.District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1819-25;died in office 1825.In November, 1807, leaving the courthouse in Clarksburg, has wasattackedand suffered a skull fracture. While in Congress, fought aduelwithJosephPearson of North Carolina, and on the second fire was wounded inthe hip.Slaveowner. Died in Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, Va (now W.Va.),March28, 1825 (age47 years, 187days).Interment atOldJackson Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
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