Ancestry: English
Height: 5 ft. 4 in.
Religion: Episcopalian
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Family: No children
The fourth President of the United
States. He is known as the "father of the
Constitution" because of his influence of
deliberations of the Constitutional Convention. His notes
on the convention, first published in 1840, are the major
source of information on the intentions of the framers of
the US Constitution. The most scholarly of the founders
for the nation, Madison was respected for the soundness
and clarity of his arguments rather than the eloquence.
Although Madison lacked a dynamic
personality, "his luminous and discriminating
mind," as Thomas Jefferson described it, was largely
responsible for creating a government that met the needs
of his own day and the test of time. Madison's Presidency
was undistinguished in comparison to his contributions to
the founding of the nation.
(more later, including a picture)
©1991 New Standard
Encyclopedia – Standard Education Corporation –
Chicago.
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President James Madison, Jr. was my 4th cousin,
eight times removed.He was the third great-grandson of
John Taylor I and Elizabeth Taylor, my 11thgreat-grandparents.
The Lineage:
15th. John Taylor (b.1478) m.
Susan Rowland (b.1482)
14th. Dr. Rowland Taylor (b.1510)
m. Margaret Tyndale (b.1510)
13th. Thomas Taylor I (b.1548) m.
Elizabeth Burwell (b.1552)
12th. Thomas Taylor II (b.1573) m.
Margaret Swinderby (b.1578)
11th. John Taylor I (b.1607) m.
Elizabeth Taylor (b.1610) (maiden name unkown)
..........James Taylor I (b.1635)
m. Frances Walker (b.1640)
...............James Taylor II, Colonel (b.1669)
m. Martha Thompson (b.1679)
....................Frances Taylor (b.1700)
m. Ambrose Madison (b.1700)
.........................James Madison, Colonel (b.1750) m. Eleanor Rose Nellie Conway (b.1730)
..............................James Madison,
Jr., 4th President (b.1750/51)
m. Dorothea Payne (b.1768)
..........Zachary Taylor I (b.1707) m.
Elizabeth Lee (b.1709)
..............Richard Taylor, Colonel (b.1743)
m. Sarah Pannill Dabney Strother (b.1760)
..................Zachery Scott Taylor, 12th
President (1784 VA-1850 DC) m.
Margaret Mackall Smith
......................Sarah Knox Taylor (b.1814)
m. Confederate President Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
10th John Taylor, II (b.1627 England)
m. Alice (Gascoyne) Gascoigne (b.1628
England)
9th. John Taylor, III (b.1654 VA)
m. Ann Vezey (b.1658 VA)
8th. Elizabeth Taylor (b.1656) m.
Edmund Basye, Sr. (b.1645 England)
7th. Edmund Bayse, Jr. (b.1675 VA)
m. Lydia Karenhappuch (b.1703 VA)
6th. Leannah Basye (b. 1725 VA) m.
John Webb I (b.1720 PA)
5th. John Webb, II (b. 1745 VA) m.
(1)Hannah Woodward Riveer (b.1750 TN)
4th. Elizabeth Leannah Basey Webb (b.1771
VA) m. Mark Lambert Jackson (b.17663
VA)
3rd. Susannah Ann Elizabeth Jackson (b.1798
VA) m. Lemuel Manire (b.1792 NC/KY)
2nd. David Crockett Manire (b.1832 TN)
m. Martha M. Reid (b.1835 TN)
Great-Grandparents: Mary Tennesse Manire (b.1866
TN) m. William Glenn Cole (b.1857
TN)
Grand-parents: Robert Marvin Cole (b.1900
TN) m. Mary Irene Hill (b.1906 TN)
Parents: Dora Leopal Cole (b.1931 TN)
m. Kenneth Allen Freeman (b.1931 TX)
Self: Alan Cole Freeman (b.1953 TN)
m. Frances Anne Hyman (b.1958 TX)
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