James Monroe

POLITICAL PARTY
Democratic-Republican

RELIGION
Episcopalian

EDUCATION
College of William and Mary
Read law under Thomas Jefferson

VITALS
6 ft 0 in / 189 lbs

CAREER
1775-77 Major, Continental Army
1776 Crossed Delaware with Washington
1778-99 Practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia
1782-83 Virginia House of Delegates
1783-86 Congress of the Confederation
1787 Virginia House of Delegates
1788 Virginia Ratifying Convention
1789 Defeated for U.S. Representative by James Madison
1790-94 U.S. Senator, Virginia
1794-96 Minister to France
1799-1802 Governor of Virginia
1803-07 Minister to the United Kingdom
1807-11 Farmer, Charlottesville, Virginia
1811 Governor of Virginia
1811-17 U.S. Secretary of State (Madison)
1814-15 U.S. Secretary of War (Madison)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 1 - 16, 1816
Popular: Monroe 76,592 (68%) Rufus King 34,740 (31%)
Electoral: Monroe 183 King 34
November 1 - 14, 1820
Popular: Monroe 87,343 (81%) Other 17,465 (16%)
Electoral: Monroe 231 John Quincy Adams 1

VICE PRESIDENT
Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-25)

ADMINISTRATION
Anglo-American Convention (1818); Panic of 1819, Spain cedes Florida (1819); Missouri Compromise (1820); Monroe Doctrine (1822)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Smith Thompson

NEW STATES
Mississippi (1817), Illinois (1818), Alabama (1819), Maine (1820), Missouri (1821)

FIRST LADY
Elizabeth "Eliza" Kortright (1817-25)

“National honor is national property of the highest value.”
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

Portrait of James Monroe by Samuel Morse, c. 1819.