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circa 1800: First Lady Dolley Madison (1768 - 1849), nee Payne, the wife of American president James Madison and a renowned Washington socialite. (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)
Portrait of Dolly Madison, circa 1800s. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).
circa 1830: First Lady Dolley Madison (1768 - 1849), nee Payne, the wife of American president James Madison and a renowned Washington socialite. (Photo by Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)
1814: Dolley Madison, wife of US president James Madison rescues a portrait of George Washington from the White House before the British troops set fire to the building during the War of 1812. A print by A Bubbett. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)
First Lady Dolley Madison saving the Declaration of Independence, during the British invasion of Washington during the War of 1812; chromolithograph, 1902. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)