James Madison

POLITICAL PARTY
Democratic-Republican

EDUCATION
College of New Jersey (now Princeton) 1771

RELIGION
Episcopalian

VITALS
5 ft 4 in (shortest) / 100 lbs (lightest)

CAREER
1774 Member, Virginia Committee of Safety
1775 Delegate, Fifth Virginia Convention
1776 Virginia House of Delegates, Constitutional Convention
1776-79 Virginia Council of State
1780-83 Second Continental Congress
1784-86 Virginia House of Delegates
1787 Co-Writer, The Federalist Papers
1787 Signer, U.S. Constitution
1789-97 U.S. Representative, Virginia
1789 Drafter, Bill of Rights
1799-1801 Virginia House of Delegates
1801-09 U.S. Secretary of State (Jefferson)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 4 - 11, 1808
Popular: Madison 124,732 (65%) - Charles C. Pinckney 62,431 (32%)
Electoral: Madison 122 Pinckney 47 George Clinton 6
October 30 - November 16, 1812
Popular: Madison 140,431 (50%) DeWitt Clinton 132,781 (48%)
Electoral: Madison 128 Clinton 89

VICE PRESIDENTS
George Clinton (1809-1812)
Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)

ADMINISTRATION
Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809); Charter of Bank of the U.S. lapses (1911); War of 1812 (1812-15); Treaty of Ghent (1814); Second Bank of the U.S. (1816)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Gabriel Duvall, Joseph Story

NEW STATES
Louisiana (1812), Indiana (1816)

FIRST LADY
Dolley Payne Todd (1809-1817)

POST-PRESIDENCY
1826-36 Chancellor, University of Virginia

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
Federalist No. 51, February 6, 1788

Portrait of James Madison by John Vanderlyn, 1816.