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Dolley Payne Todd Madison ( May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849 ) was the spouse of the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, and was First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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On September 15, 1794, James Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a young widow, at Harewood, in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia.
Dolley Payne was born May 20, 1768, at the New Garden Quaker settlement in North Carolina, where her parents, John Payne and Mary Coles Payne, lived briefly.
Dolley Payne was born as the first girl in her family on May 20, 1768, in the Quaker settlement of New Garden, North Carolina, in Guilford County.
Tragedy struck Dolley, as she lost both her husband and younger son William in the epidemic, as well as her Payne parents-in-law.
Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison, a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in Philadelphia until 1800, likely encountered each other at social events in the temporary federal capital.
Madison accepted, and his family: Dolley, her son Payne Todd ( as he was commonly called ), and her sister Anna Payne, moved to Washington, with their domestic slaves.
In 1830, Dolley Madison's son by her first marriage, Payne Todd, who had never found a career, went to debtors prison in Philadelphia.
However, the first documented wedding ceremony held in the White House was when Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison, arranged the wedding of her youngest sister, Lucy Payne Washington to Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd in 1812.
Lucy Washington ( née Payne ) ( 1772 ?– 1846 ), one of eight children born to John Payne and Mary Coles, was the sister of Dolley Madison, the wife of American President James Madison.
Dolley and Todd
In the fall of 1837, Dolley Madison returned to Washington, charging Todd with the care of the plantation.
Dolley and Madison
While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.
Dolley Madison was the first President's wife to be referred to as " First Lady " at her funeral in 1849.
According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.
Dolley Madison popularized the First Ladyship by engaging in efforts to assist orphans and women, by dressing in elegant fashions and attracting newspaper coverage, and by risking her life to save iconic treasures during the War of 1812.
Dolley Madison put her social gifts to use when the couple lived in Washington, beginning when he was Secretary of State.
First lady Dolley Madison rescued a painting of George Washington, and in 1939, a Canadian man returned a jewelry box to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming that his grandfather had taken it from Washington.
First Lady Dolley Madison is also closely associated with the early history of ice cream in the United States.
The porcelain place setting service features a green basket weave border based on a French dinner service believed to have been owned by James and Dolley Madison.
But, her birth was registered with the New Garden Friends Meeting as Dolley, and her will of 1841 states " I, Dolly P. Madison ".
Dolley Madison worked with the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe to furnish the White House, the first official residence built for the president of the United States.
As the invading British army neared Washington in 1814 during the war, Dolley Madison ordered the Stuart painting a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, to be removed, as the White House staff hurriedly prepared to flee:
" Popular accounts during and after the war years tended to portray Dolley Madison as the one who removed the painting, and she became a hero.
On April 6, 1817, a month after his retirement from the presidency, Dolley and James Madison returned to the Montpelier plantation in Orange County, Virginia.
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Phase 2 ( 1797 – 1800 ) of construction began in 1797, after James Madison returned to Montpelier with his new wife Dolley Madison.
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