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Dolley Madison 1768-1849, wife of President James Madison, b. Guilford co., N.C. Born Dolley Payne of Quaker parents, she was brought up in simplicity and was married (1790) to a Quaker, John Todd, who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. She left the Friends to marry Madison in 1794. In later years as official White House hostess for President Jefferson (who was a widower) and for her husband, both in the White House and at Montpelier , she was noted for the magnificence of her entertaining as well as for charm, tact, and grace.

Bibliography: See her memoirs and letters (1886, repr. 1971); biographies by E. S. Arnett (1972) and C. Allgor (2006).

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Madison, Dolly (Dolley Payne Madison)

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Madison, Dolly (Dolley Payne Madison) (1768–1849),wife of James Madison, was famous as a leader of Washington society, acting as “first lady” during Jefferson's incumbency as well as her husband's. When the British burned the White House during their invasion of Washington (1814), she rescued many important state documents. Her Memoirs and Letters was published in 1886.

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