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James Madison Jr. (1751–1836)

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fourth President of the United States (1809–1817); fifth United States Secretary of State (1801–1809); Democratic-Republican House Representative from Virginia (1789–1797); the “father of the Constitution”

James Madison Jr.

Contents

Works

Inaugural addresses

• First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1809)
• Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1813)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (November 29, 1809)
• Second State of the Union address (December 5, 1810)
• Third State of the Union address (November 5, 1811)
• Fourth State of the Union address (November 4, 1812)
• Fifth State of the Union address (December 7, 1813)
• Sixth State of the Union address (September 20, 1814)
• Seventh State of the Union address (December 5, 1815)
• Eighth State of the Union address (December 3, 1816)

Proclamations

• Respecting taking Possession of Part of Louisiana. (1810)

Letters

• Letter to Robert Walsh, November 27, 1819, on the Missouri Compromise
• Letter to Thomas Ritchie, September 15, 1821, mentioning how to best interpret the Constitution.
• Letter to Nicholas Trist, February 15, 1830, on the nature of the government outlined in the Constitution.
• Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831
• Letter to William Rives, March 12, 1833, on the subject of nullification.

Other works

• Virginia Plan (1787)
• The Federalist Papers (1788)
• War Message to Congress (1812)

Correspondence received

• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, September 1, 1785
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, September 20, 1785
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, February 8, 1786
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, January 30, 1787
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson, December 28, 1794

Works about James Madison

• "Madison, James," by John Esten Cooke in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• “Madison, James” by Freeman Snow  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1883).
• "Madison, James," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Madison, James," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Madison, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “James Madison” by John Fiske in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• "Madison, James," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Madison, James," by R. C. McGrane in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Madison, James," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Presidential proclamations

• Proclamation 5447 - Ronald Reagan, March 17, 1986
• Proclamation 5620 - Ronald Reagan, March 16, 1987
• Proclamation 5776 - Ronald Reagan, March 16, 1988

On his works

• "Federalist, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)