James Madison - known as the father of the US constitution - served as president from 1809 to 1817. The photograph of his wife joins the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of around 230 ...

The portraits also entail stories that the images ... of Washington as well as Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Other artists of the era who portrayed ...

wife of fourth US president James Madison, dates from around 1846. It joins a host of other early photographic portraits in ...

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 ...

Leuchtenburg examines how the first six commanders in chief embodied the revolutionary spirit and set precedents that shaped their successors' tenures Sara Georgini The National Portrait Gallery ...

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 ...