Mark Dodson, a voice actor known for playing Salacious
B. Crumb in Star Wars, has died. He suffered a heart
attack while attending a horror convention in Indiana
on March 2nd.

      Madison’s portrait as congressional delegate at age 32.

James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836)

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution,
recorder of the Constitutional Convention, author of the
Federalist Papers and fourth president of the United States, 
was born on a plantation in Virginia.

First page of the original handwritten copy of the U.S. Constitution.

The United States Military Academy at West Point, which
has trained generations of American leaders to serve
from the battlefield to the White House, was established
on this day in history, March 16, 1802. 

The academy’s creation was part of the Military Peace
Establishment Act, introduced by Massachusetts
Congressman Joseph Varnum, and signed into law
by President Thomas Jefferson.

President Thomas Jefferson.

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ROSS SIMPSON

The Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin comedy team in 1950.

Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
(March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017)

Jerry Lewis was a comedian, actor, singer and humanitarian
who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy", with a
career lasting over eight decades. He appeared in more than
60 motion pictures, starting in 1949 including sixteen Martin
and Lewis musical comedy films with Dean Martin, as his
partner.