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Eleanor Madison
Eleanor Rose Madison | |
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.jpg) Portrait by Charles Peale Polk, 1799 | |
| Born | Eleanor Rose Conway January 9, 1731 |
| Died | February 11, 1829 (aged 98) Montpelier, Virginia, U.S. |
| Resting place | Madison Family Cemetery |
| Spouse | James Madison Sr. |
| Children | 12, including James Madison and William Madison |
| Parent(s) | Francis Conway (father) Rebecca Catlett Conway (mother) |
Eleanor Rose Madison (née Conway; January 9, 1731 – February 11, 1829) was a Virginia socialite and planter who was the mother of James Madison Jr., the 4th president of the United States and Lieutenant General William Taylor Madison.[1][2] She has been described as one of the strongest female influences in the life of her eldest son, James Madison Jr.,[3][4][5][6][7] and has been credited for her efforts to preserve the Montpelier estate.[8][9]
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- ^ Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times. University of Georgia Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0-8203-4263-4. JSTOR j.ctt17575kb.
- ^ Clark, Patricia P. (1958). "Madison Family Bible Records". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 66 (1): 80–84. ISSN 0042-6636. JSTOR 4246391.
- ^ Wead, Doug (March 15, 2005). The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-1307-0.
- ^ Stoddard, William O. (1887). James, Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams. University Society.
- ^ Gullan, Harold I. (October 4, 2016). Cradles of Power: The Mothers and Fathers of the American Presidents. Skyhorse. ISBN 978-1-5107-0534-0.
- ^ Gullan, Harold I. (2001). Faith of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers from Mary Washington to Barbara Bush. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4926-7.
- ^ "The Women of Montpelier". www.montpelier.org. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
- ^ "Madison's Montpelier | Montpelier Estate". Montpelier.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2010. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
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