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'''James Monroe''' (1758-1831) was the fifth [[president of the United States of America]] (1817-1825), best known for sponsoring the [[Monroe Doctrine]], and for presiding over a period of peace and (mostly) prosperity and a lessening of partisan tensions known as the "[[Era of Good Feelings]]."  He was the last of the Virginia Dynasty that controlled the presidency for 32 of the 36 years from 1789 to 1825. He held many political and diplomatic offices, and was a loyal lieutenant to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]], the previous [[Republicans (Jeffersonian)|Republican]] presidents.  

'''James Monroe''' (1758-1831) was the fifth [[president of the United States of America]] (1817-1825), best known for sponsoring the [[Monroe Doctrine]], and for presiding over a period of peace and (mostly) prosperity and a lessening of partisan tensions known as the "[[Era of Good Feelings]]."  He was the last of the Virginia Dynasty that controlled the presidency for 32 of the 36 years from 1789 to 1825. He held many political and diplomatic offices, and was a loyal lieutenant to [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]], the previous [[Republicans (Jeffersonian)|Republican]] presidents.  

Some conservatives rate him highly because of his opposition to government spending, but they overlook his radicalism in the 1790s in favor of the most violent phase of the [[French Revolution]].

 

[[Conservative]]s rate him highly due to his opposition to government spending, foreign wars, and European colonization in the [[America]]s.  Some criticize him for his sympathetic view in the 1790s of the [[French Revolution]], but that was based on incomplete information.

==Early career==

==Early career==