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 ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... the new secretary of state, James Madison, declared the commissions incomplete, and refused to deliver ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one of the ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state that many ...

The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Paul, however, is not without ...

Lori Waselchuk George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison aren’t American heroes because they were farmers. But in her new book, Founding Gardeners (Alfred A. Knopf), the ...

The Fayette County Genealogical Society met Monday, April 21, for a program featuring David Tillis portraying Thomas ...

The first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas ... Madison stated that his mother had been ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... nowhere provided for presidents making wholesale land deals. But as James Madison advised, Napoleon might change his mind. So Jefferson chose expediency ...

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