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1792-1852 John Payne Todd was one of Dolley Todd’s two sons. He was almost two years old during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. His younger brother, William Temple died as a baby, so John Payne Todd was Dolley Todd’s only surviving child. John Payne Todd grew up lacking self-discipline, and had a weakness for gambling. He was unsuccessful in an assignment seeking Russia’s help to end the War of 1812. After the death of his stepfather, President James Madison, his mother was forced to sell the family plantation at Montpelier, Virginia to pay her son’s debts.
John Payne Todd by Kurtz, |
