As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

In March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in the U.S. Capitol to take the ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... the new secretary of state, James Madison, declared the commissions incomplete, and refused to deliver ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one of the ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state that many ...

In the early 1800s, Washington, D.C., was in its early stages of development, and the political climate at the time was rough ...

The reasons for Monroe’s relegation to the second tier of presidents has partly to do with how he has been compared to his predecessors: his mentor, Thomas Jefferson; a sometime rival and sometime ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison ... Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central ...

Looking to remake his roster this offseason, Walz and his staff have added a third transfer - James Madison guard Kiki Jefferson. The 6-foot-1 guard was the Sun Belt Player of the Year and has one ...