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Yes, let us raise a beer mug in a toast to James and Dolley Madison for their principled support of an American "homeland" beer-brewing craft. This is the bicentennial of James Madison's re-election as President in 1812, and Dolley Payne Madison was born right here in North Carolina in Guilford County.

Madison (1751-1836) was President from 1809-1817, and First Lady Dolley Madison had already acquired much experience in official diplomatic hosting as an assisting contributor to the presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), whose beloved wife Martha had died long before he assumed the awesome responsibilities of the Chief Magistry of our Republic.

Jefferson had succeeded Dr. Benjamin Franklin as Minister to France in 1986 and thus was absent from the Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia, tending to his official diplomatic duties in the Land of Voltaire, Moliere, Pascal and Rousseau.
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