James Monroe (1758-1831) · AuthorAuthor
James Monroe
1758-1831 · Fifth president of the United States (1817-1825), earlier a Revolutionary War officer, diplomat and Secretary of State
About James Monroe
James Monroe (1758–1831) was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, served as a young officer in the Continental Army and was wounded at the Battle of Trenton in 1776. He studied law with Thomas Jefferson and served as a United States senator, governor of Virginia and minister to France, where he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Under President Madison he was Secretary of State and, during the War of 1812, also Secretary of War. He was the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825 and died in New York on July 4, 1831.
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The Monroe DoctrineJames Monroe
1823 · 19th Century · Political Theory
The Monroe Doctrine is the name later given to a few passages in President James Monroe's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, sent in writing on December 2, 1823, and read aloud to the new Eighteenth Congress. The library text gives the whole message, so readers can see the famous statements in their setting.