James C. Schmidt has been named as the seventh president of James Madison University during a special announcement and meeting of the Board of Visitors at JMU’s Wilson Hall on Wednesday.

James Madison University is named eponymously to honor the fourth president of the United States, James Madison. Madison was instrumental in shaping the early American government. He was so ...

James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution ... sponsored the Bill of Rights. As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals.

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

The Montpelier Foundation In the years leading up to America’s second war with Britain, President James Madison had been unable to stop his penny-pinching secretary of the treasury, Albert ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - James Madison University is announcing that Dr. James C. Schmidt will serve as the university’s next president. According to a press release from James Madison ...

March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- James Madison University has announced that Dr. James C. Schmidt will serve as the university’s next president. Earlier today the JMU Board of Visitors voted ...

but the President nominates Supreme Court justices and the Senate confirms or denies their nominations. “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” wrote James Madison in Federalist 51 ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WRIC) — The seventh president of James Madison University (JMU) has been announced following a meeting of the Board of Visitors at Wilson Hall on Wednesday. According to an ...