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TAYLOR, James, General (1769-1848)
A distant cousin of JM from Newport, KY, Taylor was a contractor for the U.S. arsenal and barracks there and served as court clerk for Campbell, KY and as a militia brigadier general. He was also a friend of Henry Clay.

THORNTON, Ann Marie Brodeau (1774 - 1856)
Wife of William Thornton, she is remembered today for her diary of Washington, 1800-1856. The Thorntons were members of Washington Society and Mrs. Thornton was a friend of DPM's.

TODD, John (1763-1793)
First husband of Dolley Payne, Todd was a young Philadelphia Quaker lawyer. Son of John Todd, a teacher, and brother of James and Samuel Todd, John Todd died in 1793 from yellow fever.

TODD, John Payne (1792-1852)
Sole surviving son of DPM by her marriage to John Todd, Payne Todd was both dissipated and lacking in self-discipline; he was also charming and elegant, at least in his youth. Payne Todd drained the Madisons of money to pay his debts. He was, wrote Edward Coles, the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

TODD, James
Brother of John Todd, dry goods merchant, he survived the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Argued with DPM over the disposition of John Todd's property.

TODD, Lucy Payne Washington (1777?-1846)
Sister of DPM, vivacious and charming, Lucy Payne married George Steptoe Washington of Virginia and Judge Thomas Todd of Kentucky.

TODD, Samuel
He was the nephew of DPM and probably the son of James Todd, surviving brother of DPM's first husband John Todd.

TODD, Thomas (1765-1826)
Lawyer, Magistrate, Todd was U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice after 1807. He was Lucy Payne Washington's second husband, and a Virginian who moved to Kentucky in the early 1780s.

TUCKER, George (1775-1861)
Lawyer and U.C. Congressman (1819-1825) he was also author of works on political economy and a two-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson appointed him first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia. In 1845 he retired and moved to Philadelphia.