REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: JUNE 28, 2013

James Madison

Fourth President of the United States (1809-1817)
“Father of the Constitution”
The Key Champion and Author of the United States Bill of Rights

On ‘Domestic Tyranny’

Biography
James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and political theorist, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). He is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights. He served as a politician much of his adult life. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 177 Years Ago

American Revolution

June 28, 1836

Former President James Madison Dies

On this day in 1836, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the "Federalist Papers" and fourth president of the United States, dies on his tobacco plantation in Virginia.

Madison first distinguished himself as a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), where he successfully completed a four-year course of study in two years and, in 1769, helped found the American Whig Society, the second literary and debate society at Princeton (and the world), to rival the previously established Cliosophic Society. » Full Article

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