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Dolley Madison Biography

Born: May 20, 1768
New Garden, North Carolina
Died: July 12, 1849
Washington, D.C.
American first lady

Dolley Madison was the much-admired wife of the fourth U.S. president, James Madison (1751–1836).

She was highly respected by some of history's greatest politicians, including President Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), who

Dolley Madison.
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once described her as a "national institution." This was high praise during a time when women were expected to remain in the background and be seen but not heard.

Life in Philadelphia

Dolley Payne Madison was born on May 20, 1768, on a farm in New Garden, North Carolina.

Her parents were John Payne Jr. and Mary Coles Payne, who were Quaker Virginians. (The Quakers were a religious society that was started in the seventeenth century.)

In 1783 after the Revolutionary War (1775–83),