Cultivar  Cultivars have distinguishing characteristics from the other plants in the species, but cultivars do not transfer those characteristics to offspring through sexual reproduction  Names are written with a single quotes  A cultivar of red maple is written as follows: Acer rubrum, âOctober Glory.â.
James Madison is born. Future President James Madison is born on this day in 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia. Madison, one of the key drafters of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, became Americaâs fourth president in 1809. He is considered the Father of the Constitution, though he humbly referred to its...
Founding Father - a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. 1  Constitutional Convention - the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. 2  national leader, solon, statesman - a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.