詹姆斯·门罗,国会议员,纽约州(1758-1831)

1758 - 1831
参议员任职年限:1790 - 1794
方:Anti-Administration

梦露,詹姆斯,(约瑟夫·琼斯的侄子,詹姆斯·门罗的叔叔[1799-1870]),弗吉尼亚州代表和参议员,美国第五任总统;1758年4月28日出生于弗吉尼亚州威斯特摩兰县;追求古典研究;1776年就读于弗吉尼亚州威廉斯堡的威廉玛丽学院,并在独立战争中加入大陆军;他被任命为弗吉尼亚第三团的中尉,参加了多次战斗,并在哈莱姆高地战役中受了重伤;升至中校军衔;1782年州议会成员;1783-1786年大陆会议成员;重新开始学习法律;在弗吉尼亚州弗雷德里克斯堡获得律师资格并开始执业; member, State assembly 1786; delegate to the State convention to consider the Federal Constitution in 1788; unsuccessful candidate for election to the First Congress; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Grayson; reelected in 1791 and served from November 9, 1790, until his resignation May 27, 1794; appointed by President George Washington as Minister Plenipotentiary to France 1794-1796; Governor of Virginia 1799-1802; appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as Minister Plenipotentiary to France in 1803, and Minister Plenipotentiary to England 1803-1807, and during this period headed a diplomatic mission to Spain; returned home in 1808; member, State assembly 1810-1811; Governor of Virginia 1811; appointed Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Madison and served from 1811 to 1817; also served as Secretary of War 1814-1815; elected in 1816 and reelected in 1820 as President of the United States and served from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1825; retired to his farm in Loudoun County, Va.; member and president of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1829; moved to New York City in 1831, and died there July 4, 1831; interment in Marble Cemetery on Second Street, New York City; reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., July 4, 1858.


参考书目
美国国家传记;美国传记词典;亚扪人,哈利。詹姆斯·门罗:追求国家认同.纽约:麦格劳-希尔出版社,1971;梦露,詹姆斯。詹姆斯·门罗的作品.斯坦尼斯劳斯·汉密尔顿编辑,7卷。纽约:G.P.普特南的儿子们,1898-1903。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录,1771年至今