Daniel D. Barnard (1797-1861) was a United States representative in Congress from New York. He was elected as a Whig and served from 1839 to 1845. His lecture was "delivered before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement in the city of Albany on February 28, 1837. He gives a history of James Madison from his birth in Orange County, Virginia, through his education at Princeton; political career in the Virginia government during and following the Revolution through his major participation in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia as primary author of the Constitution; all the way through his terms as President.

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