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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,” 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, 1920.
• “Monroe, James,” 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, 1920.
• “Monroe Doctrine,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.