Jefferson+and+Maddison

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 * __//Thomas Jefferson//__**
 * //Thomas Jefferson was born April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. He was the author of the Decleration of Independence, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. He served the country for over five decades as public official, historian, philosopher, and plantation owner. Jefferson began building Monticello when he was twenty-six years old three years later he married Martha Wayles Skelton, which he lived happily with for ten years until her death. He never remarried, he mantained Monticello as his home throughout his life expanding and chaging it. Jefferson died July 4, 1826, at the age of eighty-three. He asked that his tomb stone reflects the things he has given people, not things people gave to him.//**

__**//James and Dolley Maddison//**__
 * //James Madison was born March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia. He married Dolley Todd September 15, 1794. They were a demorcratical-republican. He recieved an excelent education and quickly found himself drawn into debates over Independence. In Congress, he helped frame the Bill of Rights and enact the first revenue legislation. He was elected president in 1808. In a note opened after his death in 1836, he stated "The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the State be cherrished and perpetuated."//**