How did James Madison affect history?

Answer 1

On March 16, 17, James Madison was born on a plantation in Virginia. He was the fourth president of the United States and also the drafter of the Constitution. He completed a four-year course in just two years at the College of New Jersey. He returned to Virginia very smart but not very healthy in 1771.he served three years in the legislature of the new state of Virginia in 1776 after he recovered. He helped with the drafting of the Virginia Declaration of Religious Freedom. He married Dolley Payne Todd in 1794. After James Madison retired from the official political positions, he served Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia as a member of the board of visitors and then as the dean. In 1938, Madison was honored with the changing of the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg name to Madison College then that was changed in 1976 to James Madison University.