JMonroe




James Monroe
	5th President of the United States	March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1825



	Born: April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia	Died: July 4, 1831, in New York, New York
	Father: Spence Monroe	Mother: Elizabeth Jones Monroe
	Religion: Episcopalian	Education: Graduated from College of William and Mary (1776)
	Occupation: Lawyer	Political Party: Democratic-Republican
	Nicknames: "The Last Cocked Hat"; "Era-of-Good-Feeling President"

Children: Eliza Kortright Monroe (1786-1835); James Spence Monroe (1799-1800); Maria Hester Monroe (1803-50)

Other Government Positions:		Member of Continental Congress, 1783-86 United States Senator, 1790-94 Minister to France, 1794-96 Governor of Virginia, 1799-1802 Minister to France and England, 1803-07 Secretary of State, 1811-17 Secretary of War, 1814-15
Points of Interest:		Monroe was the first president to ride on a steamboat at sixteen years old, Monroe attended the college of William and Mary the first president to have been a U.S. senator. In the election of 1820 Monroe received every electoral vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted Washington to be the only president elected unanimously} Monroe's inauguration in 1817 was the first to be held outdoors the bride in the first White House wedding was Monroe's daughter. the U.S. Marine Band played at Monroe's 1821 inauguration and at every inauguration since