Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia... James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," co-authored The federalist Papers, helped to establish a system of checks and balances for the ...

James Madison was born on the Belle Grove Plantation in King George in 1751. He then went on to become the fourth president ...

Born into a prosperous slave-owning family in Virginia in 1751, James Madison was baptized in the Anglican Church. Madison was outraged to discover that a number of Baptist ministers had been ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...