Only Dolley and her oldest child, also named John, survived. The young widow quickly remarried after her family friend Aaron Burr introduced her to longtime bachelor James Madison. The couple ...

Dolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 Presidents, and watched America evolve from a struggling young republic to the first modern ...

James Madison, the "Father of the ... A slight man of less than 100 pounds, Madison's marriage to the buxom and vivacious Dolley Payne Todd surprised many and provided the nation with one of ...