James Madison Biography
- Title:
- 4th President of the United States
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should Felons Who Have Completed Their Sentence (Incarceration, Probation, and Parole) Be Allowed to Vote?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Nov. 28, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- U.S. President, 1809-1817
- U.S. Secretary of State, 1801-1809
- Drafted the Virginia Resolution protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts, 1797
- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-1797
- Co-wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, 1787-1788
- Elected member of the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1785
- Elected member of the Virginia Assembly, 1784
- Represented the Commonwealth of Virginia in the U.S. Congress, 1783
- Elected as a member of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia, participated in the framing of the Virginia Constitution, 1776
- Education:
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- Attended Princeton College (then called the College of New Jersey)
- Other:
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- Asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain (War of 1812)
- Married Dolley Payne Todd, 1794