JAMES MONROE 1758 1831 FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MONROE JAMES 1758 1831 U.S GOV'T EXECUTIVE POLITICAL PARTIES U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION ELECTIONS AND POLITICS JAMES MONROE JAMES MONROE WAS BORN IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY VIRGINIA AND FOUGHT AS A PATRIOT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MONROE SERVED IN THE CONFEDERATION CONGRESS FROM 1783 TO 1786 IN 1790 HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE U.S SENATE WHERE HE WAS A SUPPORTER OF JEFFERSON'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY MONROE WAS U.S MINISTER TO FRANCE 1794 96 AND SERVED A THREE YEAR TERM AS GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA BEGINNING IN 1799 IN 1803 MONROE SERVED AS ONE OF THE NEGOTIATORS OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THAT SAME YEAR HE WAS APPOINTED MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN A POST HE HELD UNTIL 1807 IN 1811 HE BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON AND BECAME SECRETARY OF WAR IN 1814 IN 1816 HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1820 HE WAS RE ELECTED TO A SECOND TERM DURING WHICH HE ISSUED THE MONROE DOCTRINE A MAJOR STATEMENT OF U.S FOREIGN POLICY AT THE END OF HIS SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM IN 1825 HE RETIRED TO VIRGINIA
