however, thrown into prison, and on release fled to the United States, returning to put himself at the head of an armed revolt. Diaz submitting, Madero was made president. In 1912 revolts broke out, Huerta deserting him and bringing about his downfall. He was murdered on Feb. 23, 1913, four days after his resignation. See Mexico.
MADISON, town in Madison co., Ill., two miles from St. Louis, Mo. A dozen different railway systems meet in vicinity, and the town is almost wholly industrial. The manufacturing establishments include iron and steel mills, railroad shops, lead plants, and stone mills. The town has schools and libraries. Pop. (1910) 5,046; (1920) 4,996.
MADISON, a city and county-seat of Jefferson co., Ind.; on the Ohio river, and on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroad; 45 miles N. of Louisville, Ky. The city has steamboat connection with various places on the Kentucky, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. It contains a public library, electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers, and the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and has many manufactories, ship lumber yards, shipyards, and cotton and woolen mills. Pop. (1910) 6,934; (1920) 6,711.
MADISON, a city, county-seat of Dane co., and capital of the State of Wisconsin; on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Illinois Central railroads; 75 miles W. of Milwaukee. It is situated in the Four Lake country, being built on a strip of land between Lakes Mendota and Monona. It contains the capital, county court house, county jail, University of Wisconsin, State Institution for the Insane, United States Government Building, Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and several libraries. It has electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks. National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city is a well-known summer resort, its air being recommended as beneficial for lung diseases. It has a large trade in agricultural productions, manufactories of bicycles, machinery, farming implements, carriages, wagons, etc. Pop. (1910) 25,531; (1920) 38,378.
MADISON RIVER, a stream of Montana rising in the Rocky Mountains; at an elevation of 8,300 feet above the sea-level, running nearly N. through Madison county, passing through several deep cañons interspersed with picturesque valleys, and uniting with the Jefferson Fork of the Missouri at the Three Forks, on the W. border of Gallatin county; length about 230 miles.
MADISON, JAMES, an American statesman, 4th President of the United States; born in Port Conway, Va., March 16, 1751. He was the eldest of a family of seven children. His early education was mostly under private tutors. In 1769 he entered Princeton College, graduating in 1771. He studied law, and afterward, with some idea of entering the ministry, theology.
He first attracted public attention through his efforts, in company with Jefferson and
JAMES MADISON
George Mason, to secure the religious rights of the dissenting sects in Virginia, as against the taxation and persecution to which they were subjected by the Anglican party. In 1776 he was elected to the convention that framed the Virginia constitution; in 1777 he was defeated for the Virginia Assembly, but appointed a member of the Executive Council; in 1780 entered the Continental Congress, where he served three years; and in 1784 was elected to the Virginia Legislature, where he advocated the abolition of the feudal system of entail and primogeniture, and the removal of the remaining hindrances to perfect religious freedom. In 1785 he urged a meeting of the States by delegates to perfect a common government, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and one of the chief framers of the Constitution of the United States. He advocated the adoption of it
