# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-madison-sr
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:56:47.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-madison-sr"
name: "James Madison, Sr."
slug: "james-madison-sr"
description: "Col. James Madison Sr. was a prominent Virginia planter and politician who served as a colonel in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He inherited Mount Pleasant, later known as Montpelier, a large tobacco plantation in Orange County, Virginia and, with the acquisition of more property, had 5,000 acres and became the largest landowner in the county. He was the father of James Madison Jr., the Founding Father and 4th president of the United States, who inherited what he called Montpelier, and Lieutenant General William Madison, and great-grandfather of Confederate Brigadier General James Edwin Slaughter."
tagline: "American planter and politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/James_madison_sr.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1723-03-27"
deathDate: "1801-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.982833333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8"
    title: "جيمس ماديسون الأب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison_Sr."
    title: "James Madison Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison_Senior"
    title: "James Madison Senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison_Sr."
    title: "James Madison Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3806658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations