I'll put her on legacyhealth.org employment Madison met a comely Quaker woman in Philadelphia when he was a congressman and that city was the capital in the early republic period. Dolley Payne Todd was a young widow living with her mother, who kept a boardinghouse in Philadelphia. One gentleman boarder, a congressman with a silky voice and manners, told Dolley he had a friend who wished to meet her: Mr. Madison. Speaking strictly for me, I'd rather have the matchmaker: elegant Aaron Burr of New York. But Dolley wasn't his cup of tea.