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About James Madison, Sr.
Col. James Madison Sr. was a prominent Virginia planter and politician who served as a colonel in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He inherited Mount Pleasant, later known as Montpelier, a large tobacco plantation in Orange County, Virginia and, with the acquisition of more property, had 5,000 acres and became the largest landowner in the county. He was the father of James Madison Jr., the Founding Father and 4th president of the United States, who inherited what he called Montpelier, and Lieutenant General William Madison, and great-grandfather of Confederate Brigadier General James Edwin Slaughter.
Everything about James Madison, Sr. →- Occupation
- plantation owner
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 27, 1723
- Died
- February 27, 1801