James Madison was a very little, sickly looking man. In addition, he was very shy. A fellow Virginian of the older and much taller (6'2) Thomas Jefferson, he could be considered TJ's mini-me. But the catch was that he was a genius, and what he didn't have in public, he made up for in private. As the chief architect of the Federalist Papers and the man who put the capital in Washington, he was amazing at using gentle persuasion at almost always getting his goals achieved in the new Congress. He could 'cut a deal' like no other. That skill earned the little man the moniker 'The Big Knife'.
-picked up from 'Founding Brothers' by Joseph J. Ellis
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