James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the fifth (1817-1825) President of the United States. He is credited with the development of the Monroe Doctrine.

His parents Spence Monroe (c. 1727-1774) and Elizabeth Jones (born c. 1729) were well-to-do farmers.

In 1802, then-president Thomas Jefferson sent Monroe to Paris to assist in the negotiations of the Louisiana Purchase.

Monroe's presidency was later labeled "The Era of Good Feeling", in part because partisan politics were almost nonexistent. The Federalist Party had died out, the Whig Party had not yet risen, and practically every politician belonged to what is now known as the Democratic Party. Monroe, the last American Revolutionary War veteran to serve as president, was almost uncontested in his two elections.

Places named for James Monroe

• Monroe, Massachusetts
• Monroe, Ohio
• Monroe County, Alabama
• Monroe County, Arkansas
• Monroe County, Florida
• Monroe County, Georgia
• Monroe County, Illinois
• Monroe County, Indiana
• Monroe County, Kentucky
• Monroe County, Michigan
• Monroe County, Mississippi
• Monroe County, Missouri
• Monroe County, New York
• Monroe County, Ohio
• Monroe County, Pennsylvania
• Monroe County, Tennessee
• Monroe County, West Virginia
• Monroe County, Wisconsin
• Monroe Township, New Jersey
• Monroeville, Alabama
• Monrovia, Liberia
• Fort Monroe, in Virginia
• Mount Monroe, one of a number of mountains named for Presidents of the United States in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
• Various streets, avenues, and schools in the United States of America

Supreme Court appointments

• Smith Thompson[?] - 1823

Related articles

• U.S. presidential election, 1816
• U.S. presidential election, 1820

External links

• First Inaugural Address (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/monroe1.htm)
• Second Inaugural Address (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/monroe2.htm)
• A genealogical profile of the President (http://www.algerclan.org/cgi-bin/igmget.cgi/n=Alger?I8949)