Dolley Payne Todd Madison, born May 20, 1768, in North Carolina, fundamentally shaped the role of America's First Lady through sixteen years of political hostessing. After losing her first husband and infant son to yellow fever in 1793, she married Virginia congressman James Madison in 1794. When Madison became Secretary of State under the widowed Thomas Jefferson, Dolley served as unofficial White House hostess, mastering the art of bipartisan entertaining at a time when political opponents oft
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