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James Monroe (1758–1831)

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Fifth President of the United States (1817–1825), with Daniel D. Tompkins, succeeding James Madison; succeeded by John Quincy Adams. Seventh Secretary of State (1811–1814, 1815–1817), eighth Secretary of War (1814–1815), 16th Governor of Virginia (1811), Democratic–Republican Senator from Virginia (1803–1807), 12th Governor of Virginia (1799–1802). Continental Army Lieutenant Colonel (American Revolution). Grand-uncle by marriage of Franklin Roosevelt.

James Monroe

Works

Inaugural addresses

• First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1817)
• Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1821)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (December 12, 1817)
• Second State of the Union address (November 16, 1818)
• Third State of the Union address (December 7, 1819)
• Fourth State of the Union address (November 14, 1820)
• Fifth State of the Union address (December 3, 1821)
• Sixth State of the Union address (December 3, 1822)
• Seventh State of the Union address (December 2, 1823) contains The Monroe Doctrine
• Eighth State of the Union address (December 7, 1824)

Correspondence received

• Letter to James Monroe - May 20, 1782, from Thomas Jefferson
• Letter to James Monroe - June 17, 1785, from Thomas Jefferson

Works about James Monroe

• “Monroe, James” by John Esten Cooke in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Monroe, James” by Freeman Snow  in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1883.
• “Monroe, James,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Monroe, James” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Monroe, James”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “James Monroe” by Daniel Coit Gilman in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (1914)
• “Monroe, James,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “Monroe, James,” by R. C. McGrane in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Monroe, James,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Monroe Doctrine

• John W. Foster (1901). "Chapter XII: The Monroe Doctrine". A Century of American Diplomacy. 
• “Monroe Doctrine,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Monroe Doctrine” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Monroe Doctrine”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911
• “Monroe Doctrine, The,” by Albert Bushnell Hart in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Monroe Doctrine,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)