Top 5 First Ladies More Qualified to be President than Hillary Clinton

2. Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison was our most down-to-earth, clever and courageous First Lady. An excellent hostess, she served in that role first under Thomas Jefferson, who was a widower while in office and hence had no First Lady of his own. While Dolley Madison was not nearly as well educated or intellectual as her husband, James Madison, she had a great deal more common sense and social acumen than he did, and President Madison relied on her discretion. It was Aaron Burr who had introduced Dolley to her future husband. Madison and Burr had gone to college together, and Dolley Payne Todd was a widow living in the same boarding house as Burr. Prior to meeting Dolley, James Madison had been a confirmed old bachelor. He was 43 years old when they married. She was 26.

During the War of 1812, when the British approached the city of Washington in August of 1814, James Madison and his military advisers fled the city first, leaving Dolley and her servants to preserve national treasures, such as silverware and paintings, from the approaching British, who then proceeded to sack and burn the Capitol and the White House.

If Dolley Madison had run for president, she would doubtlessly have been a better candidate than Hillary Clinton.