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.