Dolley Madison

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Dolley Madison

Dolley Payne Todd Madison (born May 20, 1768 in New Garden, Guilford County , Province of North Carolina , † July 12, 1849 in Washington, DC ) was the wife of US President James Madison and thus the "First Lady" of the USA from 1809 to 1817 - although this designation came into use much later.

Name spelling

The name she was given at birth was probably "Dollie", but her birth was registered in the Quaker community with the spelling "Dolley", while she called herself "Dolly" in her will.

Life

She was the daughter of the plantation owner John Payne and his wife Mary Coles. Her parents were Quakers . Dolley spent her childhood on her parents' plantation in Virginia until her father released his slaves in 1783 , sold the plantation and moved his family to Philadelphia .

On January 7, 1790, Dolley and John Todd Jr. married. (1764-1793) in Philadelphia. The couple had two sons, John Payne Todd (1792-1852) and William Temple Todd (infant death 1793). Dolleys husband and her younger son both died by a yellow fever - epidemic .

Dolley Todd and James Madison were married on September 14, 1794. The wedding took place on a plantation in Virginia . They didn't have any children. After the death of her husband in 1836, Dolley Madison lived from November 1837 with an interruption between 1839 and 1843 until her death in July 1849 in the so-called Cutts-Madison House on Madison Place in Washington.

literature

  • Rebecca Smith Doyle: Dolley Madison: An American Queen. University of Central Arkansas, 1997
  • Lynda Pflueger: Dolley Madison: Courageous First Lady , Enslow Publishers, Springfield (NJ), 1999
  • Paul M. Zall: Dolley Madison , Nova History Publications, Huntington (NY), 2001
  • Richard N. Cote: Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison. , Pleasant (SC) 2005, Corinthian
  • Catherine Allgor: James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 59-74.
  • Jeanne E. Abrams: First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role. NYU Press, New York 2018, ISBN 9781479886531 .

Web links

Commons : Dolley Madison  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Catherine Allgor: A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation . Henry Holy & Co., New York, 2006, pp. 415-416; Richard N. Cote: Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolly Madison . Corinthian Books, Mount Pleasant, SC, 2005, pp. 36-37
  2. ^ Will of Dolly Payne Todd Madison, February 1, 1841, Papers of Notable Virginia Families, MS 2988, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia
personal data
SURNAME Madison, Dolley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payne Todd Madison, Dorethea; Payne Todd Madison, Dolley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American first lady
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1849
Place of death Washington, DC