| LC control no. | n 50078822 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Monroe, James, 1758-1831 |
| Variant(s) | Monro, Dzhems, 1758-1831 Monroe, Jas. (James), 1758-1831 |
| See also | United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) Virginia. Governor (1799-1802 : Monroe) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Monrovia (Liberia) |
| Located | Virginia |
| Birth date | 1758-04-28 |
| Death date | 1831-07-04 |
| Place of birth | Westmoreland County (Va.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | College of William & Mary Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates United States. Congress. Senate |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Politicians Founding Fathers of the United States Presidents Statesmen Governors |
| Found in | A letter from Governor Monroe, to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1800. Virginia ... History of the executives, 1893: p. 300, etc. (James Monroe; Va. governor 12/1/1799-12/1/1802 and 1/11/1811-11/25/1811; elected to Va. General Assembly; member U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. secretary of state; U.S. president 1817-1825) The following documents accompany the memorial of Sarah Easton and Dorothy Storer, 1790?: p. 1 (Jas. Monroe) General Society of the War of 1812, via WWW, Sept. 27, 2011: Timeline (James Monroe; served as secretary of war from resignation of William Eustis on Dec. 3, 1812 until John Armstrong assumed the post on Feb. 5, 1813) MWA/NAIP files, Sept. 27, 2011 (hdg.: Monroe, James, 1758-1831; note: senator, Va., 1790-94; U.S. ambassador to France, 1794-96; ambassador to U.K., 1803-08; gov. Va., 1799-1802; U.S. secretary of state, 1811-17; U.S. secretary of war, 12/3/1812-2/5/1813 and again 9/27/1814-3/2/1815; U.S. president, 1817-25) Observations upon the proposed plan of federal government,1788: t.p. (Native of Virgina) Note on bib. record (Attributed to James Monroe by Evans; letter in LC Rare Book Division from bibliograper at the University of South Carolina attributes it to Col. Daniel Fisher of Greenvillle County) Wikipedia, Dec. 16, 2014 (James Monroe; born April 28, 1758 in Monroe Hall, Virginia; died July 4, 1831 in New York City; the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation. He was of French and Scottish descent. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the Battle of Trenton with a musket ball to his shoulder. After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress. As an anti-federalist delegate to the Virginia convention that considered ratification of the United States Constitution, Monroe opposed ratification, claiming it gave too much power to the central government. He took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 he was elected to the Senate of the first United States Congress, where he joined the Jeffersonians. He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence as a diplomat in France, when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, Monroe held the critical roles of Secretary of State and the Secretary of War under President James Madison. Monroe supported the founding of colonies in Africa for free African Americans that would eventually form the nation of Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, is named in his honor.) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed April 16, 2024 (Monroe, James, (nephew of Joseph Jones, uncle of James Monroe), a Delegate and a Senator from Virginia and 5th President of the United States; born in Westmoreland County, Va., April 28, 1758; pursued classical studies; attended William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1776 and left to enter the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War; appointed a lieutenant in the Third Virginia Regiment, participated in numerous engagements, and was severely wounded in the Battle of Trenton; rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel; member, State assembly 1782; Member of the Continental Congress 1783-1786; resumed the study of law; admitted to the bar and engaged in practice in Fredericksburg, Va.; member, State assembly 1786; delegate to the State convention to consider the Federal Constitution in 1788; unsuccessful candidate for election to the First Congress; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Grayson; reelected in 1791 and served from November 9, 1790, until his resignation May 27, 1794; appointed by President George Washington as Minister Plenipotentiary to France 1794-1796; Governor of Virginia 1799-1802; appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as Minister Plenipotentiary to France in 1803, and Minister Plenipotentiary to England 1803-1807, and during this period headed a diplomatic mission to Spain; returned home in 1808; member, State Assembly 1810-1811; Governor of Virginia 1811; appointed Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Madison and served from 1811 to 1817; also served as Secretary of War 1814-1815; elected in 1816 and reelected in 1820 as President of the United States and served from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1825; retired to his farm in Loudoun County, Va.; member and president of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829; moved to New York City in 1831, and died there July 4, 1831; interment in Marble Cemetery on Second Street, New York City; reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., July 4, 1858.) |
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