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{{Infobox Officeholder
|name             = James Monroe
|image            = Jm5.gif
|office           = [[List of Presidents of the United States|5th]] [[President of the United States]]
|vicepresident    = [[Daniel D. Tompkins|Daniel Tompkins]]
|term_start       = March 4, 1817
|term_end         = March 3, 1825
|predecessor      = [[James Madison]]
|successor        = [[John Quincy Adams]]
|office2          = 8th [[United States Secretary of War]]
|president2       = [[James Madison]]
|term_start2      = September 27, 1814
|term_end2        = March 2, 1815
|predecessor2     = [[John Armstrong, Jr.|John Armstrong]]
|successor2       = [[William H. Crawford|William Crawford]]
|office3          = [[List of Secretaries of State of the United States|7th]] [[United States Secretary of State]]
|president3       = [[James Madison]]
|term_start3      = April 2, 1811
|term_end3        = March 4, 1817
|predecessor3     = [[Robert Smith (cabinet)|Robert Smith]]
|successor3       = [[John Quincy Adams]]
|office4          = [[List of Governors of Virginia|12 and 16th]] [[Governor of Virginia]]
|term_start4      = January 16, 1811
|term_end4        = April 2, 1811
|predecessor4     = [[George William Smith (politician)|George Smith]]
|successor4       = [[George William Smith (politician)|George Smith]]
|term_start5      = December 19, 1799
|term_end5        = December 1, 1802
|predecessor5     = [[James Wood (governor)|James Wood]]
|successor5       = [[John Page (Virginia politician)|John Page]]
|ambassador_from6 = United States
|country6         = the United Kingdom
|nominator6       = [[Thomas Jefferson]]
|term_start6      = April 18, 1803
|term_end6        = February 26, 1808
|predecessor6     = [[Rufus King]]
|successor6       = [[William Pinkney]]
|ambassador_from7 = United States
|country7         = France
|nominator7       = [[George Washington]]
|term_start7      = May 28, 1794
|term_end7        = September 9, 1796
|predecessor7     = [[Gouverneur Morris]]
|successor7       = [[Charles C. Pinckney|Charles Pinckney]]
|jr/sr8           = United States Senator
|state8           = [[Virginia]]
|term_start8      = November 9, 1790
|term_end8        = March 29, 1794
|predecessor8     = [[John Walker (politician)|John Walker]]
|successor8       = [[Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)|Stevens Mason]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date|1758|4|28}}
|birth_place      = [[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland County]], [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia Colony]]
|death_date       = {{death date and age|1831|7|4|1758|4|28}}
|death_place      = [[New York City]], [[New York]], United States
|party            = [[Democratic-Republican Party]]
|spouse           = [[Elizabeth Monroe|Elizabeth Kortright]]
|alma_mater       = [[The College of William & Mary|College of William and Mary]]
|profession       = [[Lawyer]]<br>[[Plantations in the American South|Planter]] 
|religion         = [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]]
|signature        = James Monroe's sig.svg
|signature_alt    = Cursive signature in ink
|branch           = [[Continental Army]]
|rank             = [[Major (rank)|Major]]
|battles          = [[American Revolutionary War]]<br>{{*}}[[Battle of Trenton]]
}}

[[Image:James Monroe in National Portrait Gallery IMG_4489.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Monroe as he appears in the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

'''James Monroe''' (April 28, 1758{{ndash}} July 4, 1831) was the [[List of Presidents of the United States|fifth]] [[President of the United States]] (1817–1825). Monroe was the last president who was a [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father of the United States]], and the last president from the [[Virginia dynasty]] and the [[List of United States Presidents by generation|Republican Generation]].<ref>Harlow Unger, ''James Monroe: The Last Founding Father'' (2009).</ref> His presidency was marked both by an "[[Era of Good Feelings]]"&nbsp;– a period of relatively little partisan strife&nbsp;– and later by the [[Panic of 1819]] and a fierce national debate over the admission of the [[Missouri Territory]]. Monroe is most noted for his proclamation of the [[Monroe Doctrine]] in 1823, which stated that the United States would not tolerate further European intervention in the [[Americas]].

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