There are many interesting facts about James Madison. One thing would be that there is a university named after him. Madison lived in one house for his entire lifetime, he never moved. James knew three foreign languages. James was against slavery but he never freed his personal slaves. Madison was congress’s youngest member at age 29. Madison was engaged twice, but married once, because his first fiancé, Kitty, changed her mind. James graduated from Princeton University in only two years, back then it took most three years to graduate. Dolley gave up her Quaker religion to marry James, a non- Quaker. Madison didn’t miss a single day of the constitutional convention. James fought taxing the people to support the Christian churches, because it undermined religious freedom. Madison originally wrote 19 amendments for the bill of rights, but only ten got published.
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