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James Monroe
James Monroe was a Founding Father and the fifth president of the United States, serving from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president, as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe's presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings, in which the First Party System era of American politics concluded. He issue…
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Born 28 April 1758 · Died 4 July 1831 · Q11815
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2026· 16 entries
Legacy obituary: James Monroe "Jim" Ballinger Jr. Obituary (2026) - Winsted, MN - Chilson Funeral Chapel - Winsted
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Playbill: James Monroe Iglehart Will Be Aladdin's Genie to Darren Criss' Jiminy Cricket in New Descendants Movie
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wvmetronews.com: Consistency is key at James Monroe as the Mavericks seek sixth consecutive playoff berth
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MaxPreps: Schedule - James Monroe Yellow Jackets (Fredericksburg, VA) Girls Basketball 26-27
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Tribute Archive: James Monroe "Jim" Williams Obituary | Green Hill Funeral Home & Cemetery | Sapulpa, OK
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West Virginia MetroNews: Six score in double figures for James Monroe in 90-56 win at Princeton
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2005· 1 entry
“There is no object which as a people we can desire which we do not possess or which is not within our reach.”
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1858· 1 entry
His body was re-interred at the President's Circle in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia
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1832· 1 entry
James Renwick Willson, a Reformed Presbyterian minister in Albany, New York, criticized Monroe for having "lived and died like a second-rate Athenian philosopher"
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1831· 3 entries
Monroe died at age 73 from heart failure and tuberculosis, becoming the third president to have died on Independence Day
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Died 1831-07-04.
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“National honor is the national property of the highest value.”
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1830· 3 entries
And his wife Elizabeth died just two days later
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That military drill be added to the curriculum, but Madison refused
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Monroe moved to 63 Prince Street at Lafayette Place in New York City to live with his daughter Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur, who had married Samuel L
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1829· 1 entry
Monroe abandoned work on The People the Sovereigns after hearing George Hay's unfavorable reaction to the manuscript
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1828· 1 entry
Monroe was elected as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830
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1825· 2 entries
Monroe resided at Monroe Hill, which is now included in the grounds of the University of Virginia
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Was plagued by financial difficulties and died on July 4, 1831, in New York City
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1824· 1 entry
Monroe advocated the resettlement of Native Americans living within the territory of the United States to lands beyond the western frontier where they could continue their ancestral way of life
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1823· 3 entries
In his annual message to Congress, Monroe articulated what became known as the Monroe Doctrine
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Monroe announced the United States' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy
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“opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy. Monroe was a member of the American Colonization Society which supported the colonization of Africa by freed slaves, and Liberia”
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1822· 1 entry
Congress passed a bill authorizing the collection of tolls on the Cumberland Road, with the tolls being used to finance repairs on the road
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1820· 1 entry
The 40 members unanimously decided not to nominate an opposing candidate to Monroe
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1819· 1 entry
Spain and the United States signed the Adams–Onís Treaty, which ceded the Floridas in return for the assumption by the United States of claims of American citizens against Spain to an amount not exceeding $5,000,000 (~$1
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1818· 2 entries
Had already shocked the conservative republicans
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Monroe assured a representative of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata that his attitude was "impartial neutrality," Although not diplomatically recognized, the young republics enjoyed the advantages of a soverei
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1817· 3 entries
Monroe's inauguration took place in front of the Old Brick Capitol
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1817–1825).
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The United States and Britain signed the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which regulated naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain and demilitarized the border between the U
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1816· 1 entry
Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1816–1817).
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1815· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1815–1817).
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1814· 3 entries
But no successor was ever appointed and thus from October 1814 to February 28, 1815, Monroe effectively held both Cabinet posts
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1814–1815).
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of War (1814–1815).
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1811· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1811–1814).
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1810· 2 entries
South America's wars of independence began, inspired by the American and French Revolutionary Wars, but the Madison administration, as well as Monroe himself during his first term in office, treated the conflicts as civi
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Monroe returned to the Virginia House of Delegates and was elected to another term as governor in 1811, but served only four months, as less than two months into his term, Monroe was asked on Madison's behalf if he would
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1808· 1 entry
Campaign: 1808 election and the Quids.
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1807· 2 entries
In support of Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, and Monroe hoped that the appointment would encourage the defection of more Federalists
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Monroe received a warm reception, and many urged him to run in the 1808 presidential election
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1806· 1 entry
Negotiated the Monroe–Pinkney Treaty with Great Britain
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1805· 1 entry
To try to win the cession of West Florida, but found that the American ambassador to Spain, Charles Pinckney, had alienated the Spanish government with crude threats of violence
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1803· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1803–1807).
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1800· 2 entries
Hundreds of slaves from Virginia planned to kidnap him, take Richmond, and negotiate for their freedom
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Monroe called out the state militia to suppress Gabriel's Rebellion, a slave rebellion originating on a plantation six miles from the capital of Richmond
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1799· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Virginia (1799–1802).
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1794· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to France (1794–1796).
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1793· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1793–1794).
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1791· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1791–1793).
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1790· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1790–1791).
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1758· 1 entry
Born 1758-04-28.
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