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Dolley Madison

1768 - 1849

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Dolley Todd Madison (née Payne; May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation. Previously, founders such as Thomas Jefferson would only meet with members of one party at a time, and politics could often be a violent affair resulting in physical altercations and even duels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dolley Madison has received more than 1,794,145 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Dolley Madison is the 10,154th most popular politician (up from 10,543rd in 2019), the 3,554th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,986th in 2019) and the 228th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dolley Madison ranks 10,154 out of 19,576. Before her are Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Dioncounda Traoré, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Jules Simon, Jakob Dubs, and Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua. After her are Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Hassan Al-Turabi, Anna of Moscow, Dirk IV, Count of Holland, Kamehameha V, and Su Tseng-chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1768, Dolley Madison ranks 25. Before her are Peter Wittgenstein, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Joseph Anton Koch, Wang Zhenyi, and Jean-Baptiste Debret. After her are Kaʻahumanu, Elizabeth Monroe, Zacharias Werner, Johann Michael Vogl, Maria Wirtemberska, and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford. Among people deceased in 1849, Dolley Madison ranks 40. Before her are Quatremère de Quincy, Angelica Catalani, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Conradin Kreutzer, and René Lesson. After her are Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, Pierre François Verhulst, Carlo Rossi, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, Pavel Chichagov, and Andrés Manuel del Río.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolley Madison ranks 3,554 out of 20,380. Before her are René Auberjonois (1940), Jerome Kern (1885), Marshall Bell (1942), Warren Weaver (1894), Jerry Garcia (1942), and Joe Spinell (1936). After her are Kamehameha V (1830), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Kate Jackson (1948), Bobby Jones (1902), David Ogden Stiers (1942), and Dan Flavin (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dolley Madison ranks 228. Before her are Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), Steve Bannon (1953), James Forrestal (1892), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Robert Lansing (1864), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874). After her are Kamehameha V (1830), Bobby Jones (1902), Frank Caprio (1936), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), Ignacio Zaragoza (1829), and Edith Wilson (1872).

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