Dolley Madison
Dolley Madison
Dolley Payne Todd Madisonwas the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for her social graces, which boosted her husband’s popularity as President. In this way, she did much to define the role of the President’s spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth20 May 1768
CityGreensboro, NC
CountryUnited States of America
I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.
Disaffection stalks around us.
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
you may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Our private property must be sacrificed.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
It would be a very nice way to commute, to be able to bike through the upper part of the George Washington Parkway,