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Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation.
The Dolley Todd House or Dolley Todd Madison House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a house constructed by carpenter John Dilworth in 1775. The house was the residence of Dolley Madison, who lived in the home with her first husband John Todd Jr. prior to his death in 1793. [2] It is located at 341 Walnut Street in the Society Hill neighborhood ...
The Cutts–Madison House (also known as the Dolley Madison House) is an American colonial-style [1] historic home, now used for offices located at 1520 H Street NW in Washington, D.C. The house is best known for being the residence of former First Lady Dolley Madison , who lived there from November 1837 until her death in July 1849.
Dolley kept Catherine at Montpelier for several months after she brought Ralph to D.C., and then brought Catherine to D.C. later Dolley Madison transferred (or deeded), most of the enslaved people to her son, John Payne Todd. He stipulated in his will that upon his death, the slaves would be manumitted.
John Payne Todd (February 29, 1792 – January 16, 1852) was an American secretary. He was the first son of Dolley Payne and John Todd Jr. His father and younger brother died in the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic , which killed nearly 10 percent of the city's population.
Prior to becoming First Lady and marrying the President, Dolley Madison was a widow who had two children, John Payne Todd and William Temple Todd, from a previous marriage to Quaker lawyer John Todd. Her husband and youngest son both suddenly died when yellow fever struck Philadelphia in 1793. The following year, she accepted Madison's proposal ...
George Washington visited the house several times, and its interior features a marble fireplace reportedly given to George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette. [ 3 ] After Samuel Washington's death, it was inherited by his son George Steptoe Washington , whose sister-in-law Dolley Payne Todd married future President James Madison in the ...
During Madison's presidency, his White House slaves included John Freeman, Jennings, Sukey, Joseph Bolden, Jim, and Abram. [14] Madison was referred to as a "garden-variety slaveholder" by historian Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. Madison was not excessively cruel to his slaves, to avoid criticism from his peers and to curb slave revolts.