Presidents of the United States of America
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5 - James Monroe
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: April 28, 1758
Birthplace: Westmoreland County, Virginia
Father: Spence Monroe (? – 1774)
Mother: Elizabeth Jones (d. ante 1774)
Height at Prime: Slightly over 6 feet tall
Physical Description: Large frame, wide-set blue-gray eyes, dark wavy hair, dimpled chin
Religion: Episcopalian
Wife: Elizabeth Kortright (June 30, 1768 – September 23, 1830)
Marriage Date: February 16, 1786
Marriage Place: New York City, New York
Children:
-- Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (December 1787 – 1835)
-- James Spence Monroe (May 1799 – September 28, 1801)
-- Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur (1803 – June 20, 1850)
Death Date: July 4, 1831
Place of Death: Daughter Maria’s house, New York City, New York
Final Words: Unknown
1st Burial Place: Gouverneur family vault, Trinity Cemetery, New York City, New York
2nd Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Professional Statistics:
Soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1776-1778)
Member of Virginia Assembly (1782-1783)
Member of Continental Congress (1783-1786)
U.S. Senator (1790-1794)
Minister to France (1794-1796)
Governor of Virginia (1799-1802)
Special Envoy to Paris (1803)
Minister to Great Britain (1803-1807)
Secretary of State (1811-1817)
Secretary of War (1814-1815)
5th President of the United States (1817-1825)
His Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825)
Events During Presidency:
Era of Good Feelings
Mississippi admitted to Union (1817)
First Seminole War (1817-1818)
Illinois admitted to Union (1818)
Rush-Bagot Agreement (1818)
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Alabama admitted to Union (1819)
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Maine admitted to the Union (1820)
Missouri admitted to the Union (1821)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
