Quiet, reserved, pale, and professorial. He was short and sleight with weak health. He entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) at a young age, and worked so hard to get through in little time that he made himseld sick by it. read more
Madison was married for the first time at the age of 43; on September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a 26-year-old widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia. read more
Born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia, James Madison wrote the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist Papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights. He established the Democrat-Republican Party with President Thomas Jefferson, and became president himself in 1808. read more