jan 10, 1809 - Fourth president James Madison

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Born in Virginia, studied at Princeton
Member of the Second Continental Congress 1775 and Virginia

House of Delegates, co-drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776

he joined the Constitutional Convention and helped draft both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, came to be known as: The Father of the Constitution

Co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party with Thomas Jefferson in 1792, Secretary of State during presidency of Jefferson 1801-1809

Fourth president of the US from 1809 to 1817

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