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James Monroe

5th president of the United States
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Sterling Professor of Diplomatic History and Inter-American Relations, Yale University, 1945–61. Author of John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy and others.
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James Monroe (born April 28, 1758, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died July 4, 1831, New York, New York, U.S.) was the fifth president of the United States (1817–25), who issued an important contribution to U.S. foreign policy in the Monroe Doctrine, a warning to European nations against intervening in the Western Hemisphere. The period of his administration has been called the Era of Good Feelings. Monroe’s father, Spence Monroe, was of Scottish descent, and his mother,...

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