Democratic-Republican Party
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The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s. It championed liberalism,
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States (1801–1809)
James Madison, 4th president of the United States (1809–1817)
Albert Gallatin served as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison.
Henry Clay
James Madison
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James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the "Father of the
Virginia historic marker for Birthplace of President James Madison in Port Conway, Virginia
Madison as a student at Princeton, portrait by James Sharples
First page of the original handwritten copy of the U.S. Constitution