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✔Birthdate
✔Birthplace
✔Was quoted saying
✔What is she famous for
✔Three interesting facts about her
✔Three words to describe her
✔One obstacle she overcame to be successful
✔Explain how hse made the world better
✔One thing I would ask her is...
✔Answer key included
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The Quakers disowned her for marrying an Episcopalian, and she embarked on a new life as the wife of one of the most important men in Philadelphia. Her health seriously deteriorated and she lost weight, suffered from chills and painful eye inflammations, and could barely handle a pen well enough to sign a letter.
Dolley Madison Artifacts at Montpelier
By August 23 Dolley Madison was preparing to evacuate the White House. But she remained publicly calm, no matter how inwardly enraged she felt.
On August 17, 1814, British troops landed thirty-five miles from Washington and began their trek toward the nation’s capital. PRODUCT INCLUDES BOTH A PRINTABLE AND MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION!
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Madison accepted and in May he and Dolley traveled to Washington, living first with Jefferson and his secretary, Dolley Madison’s cousin Isaac Coles, in the White House, until moving to a home of their own two blocks east of the White House.
During the secretary of state years (1801–1809) Dolley Madison had no official responsibilities.
She furnished her new home on Nineteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue with secondhand furniture and persevered, the mistress of the nation who had braved the enemy.
Return to Montpelier
In March 1817 James Madison retired from office, and a month later the Madisons returned to Montpelier, in Orange County. So Madison held her parties, and people flocked to them.
In all, James Madison spent about $40,000 to pay off Todd’s debts, at least half of which he concealed from Dolley Madison, although he admitted to Edward Coles that “his mother has known eno’ to make her wretched the whole time of his strange absence & misterious silence.”
Increasingly Dolley Madison’s time was taken up in tending to her husband, whose health was failing.
“No one,” she wrote, “I think can appreciate my feeling of grief and dismay at the necessity of transferring to another a beloved home.” Her job had become to remain the dignified and beloved relict of the fourth president of the United States, for which she continued to be honored.
Final Years in Washington
Zachary Taylor was kin to her husband.
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First Lady, Dolley Madison, was the wife of James Madison, 4th President of the United States. She wrote her niece Dolley Cutts in 1834 that her days were “devoted to nursing and comforting my patient, who walks only from the bed in which he breakfasts, to one in the little chamber.” On June 28, 1836, James Madison died.
She dressed elegantly but simply, without the pretense of a European aristocrat. It was attended by the president, the cabinet, the diplomatic corps, members of the House and Senate, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, officers of the Army and Navy, the mayor, and other leading citizens. She brought some to Washington, sold some to the man who had purchased Montpelier, and gave the rest to her son.
She often wore pearls, for example, rather than the diamonds worn by a British lady of court. Despite being an impoverished widow, she resided on the top rung of society.
When she moved permanently to Washington she divided her enslaved population. It was a seismic event for Madison, who grieved the loss to her daily life. Dolley had been married to him for forty-two years.
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