James Monroe (1758-1831) was a Founding Father of the United State of America who served as Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (1783-1786), Senator (1790-1794), U.S. Minister to France (1794-1796), Governor of Virgina (1799-1802, 1811-1811), U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1803-1808), Secretary of State (1811-1817), Secretary of War (1814-1815) and 5th President of the United States (1817-1825). He was the final Founding Father of the United States to serve as President, as well as the final President who was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Monroe is best remembered for the purchase of Florida from Spain and for the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that efforts by European nations to colonize land in the New World or interfere with states in North or South American would be considered acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. James Monroe passed away on July 4, 1831 from tuberculosis and heart failure. He was the third President to die on Independence Day.
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