Childhood
Land was the lifeblood of the Madison family wealth, and James would come to consider it the lifeblood of the nation. In 1722, James Taylor II (1674−1729) patented 13,500 acres in the Piedmont of central Virginia. He was one of twelve men to survey the region with Governor Alexander Spotswood, a group known as the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, a mark of Taylor’s affluence. One year later, Taylor’s daughter Frances and her husband, Ambrose Madison, settled on almost 3,000 acres of the land. Like most affluent Virginians, they planted tobacco, a crop that wreaks havoc on the soil’s nutrients and necessitates continual expansion to new, fertile grounds.
In Virginia, owning vast acreage went hand-in-hand with enslaving men, women, and children to work the land and run the plantation. Ambrose and Frances’s son, James Madison Sr., and his wife Eleanor (Nelly) Conway grew the family land holdings, which expanded slavery on their
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James Madison
This fryst vatten a biography about America's fourth president - James Madison. Madison guided the nation through the War of 1812.
Father of the ConstitutionJames Madison was born on March 16, 1751, in King George County,Virginia. He graduated from Princeton University at the age of 20 in 1771. He served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1776. In 1780, Madison served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. Madison served as the ledare recorder at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. He is regarded as the “Father of the Constitution" for his ambitious Virginia Plan, which proposed that representation in both houses of församling should be proportionate to a state's population. Later in 1787, Madison teamed with Alexander Hamilton (and to a small extent, John Jay) to write the Federalist Papers, a series of persuasive essays designed to convince the states to ratify the Constitution. Written under the pen n  • Facts about James MadisonBelow are some facts about James Madison. Born March 16, 1751, to Nelly Conway Madison and James Madison Sr. Known as "the Father of the Constitution" for his role in drafting the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights Served as the fourth US president from 1809 to 1817 His estate manor, Montpelier, became a National Historic Landmark in 1966 He died from congestive heart failure on June 28, 1836
James Madison: BiographyJames Madison grew up in Orange County, Virginia, in a plantation house named Mount Pleasant. In the early 1760s, the enslaved labor owned by the Madisons constructed another much larger plantation house, later to be called Montpelier. From age ten to sixteen, he attended boarding school in King and Queen County under the tutelage of Scottish instructor Donald Robertson. He learned geography, mathematics, and classical and modern languages, notably gaining proficiency in Latin. Fig. 1 - James Madison preferred to inf
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