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jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
Who was the American President from 1817 to 1825?
AND which "number" was he? (i.e. 1st was G. Washington

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Prize: a handful (eight or nine, maybe a dozen if your answer is interesting) USA embroidered flag sew/iron-on patches.

This is open to nightime surfers only. Come daybreak (6:39 a.m. PST) offer void.

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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    James Monroe, a lawyer and French lover! Nuff said. Don.

    "Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
  • jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    O.K.
    Nine patches to you. The "French Twist" got my fancy. I like Dumas.
    Email address, even if I have it.
    Where did you go for the source?
  • bluegoose11bluegoose11 Member Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey jsergovic how about James Monroe the 5th.
  • bluegoose11bluegoose11 Member Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey jsergovic how about James Monroe the 5th.
  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,003 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I said French lover because I could not spell sim..sympathizer.. aw hell, lover...

    "Right is Right, even is everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"
  • jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    O.K., Blue, Give me some interesting dirt on the Pres and you'll get five.

    But it isn't automatic.. . Something interesting

    I'll be back in five minutes...You have that long.
  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hate history so keep your little flag patch!!!![;)]

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  • bluegoose11bluegoose11 Member Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hope this in't cheating lol
    James Monroe

    On New Year's Day, 1825, at the last of his annual White House receptions, President James Monroe made a pleasing impression upon a Virginia lady who shook his hand:

    "He is tall and well formed. His dress plain and in the old style.... His manner was quiet and dignified. From the frank, honest expression of his eye ... I think he well deserves the encomium passed upon him by the great Jefferson, who said, 'Monroe was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it.' "

    Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1758, Monroe attended the College of William and Mary, fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia.





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    As a youthful politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with Robert R. Livingston, he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

    His ambition and energy, together with the backing of President Madison, made him the Republican choice for the Presidency in 1816. With little Federalist opposition, he easily won re-election in 1820.

    Monroe made unusually strong Cabinet choices, naming a Southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State. Only Henry Clay's refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner.

    Early in his administration, Monroe undertook a goodwill tour. At Boston, his visit was hailed as the beginning of an "Era of Good Feelings." Unfortunately these "good feelings" did not endure, although Monroe, his popularity undiminished, followed nationalist policies.

    Across the facade of nationalism, ugly sectional cracks appeared. A painful economic depression undoubtedly increased the dismay of the people of the Missouri Territory in 1819 when their application for admission to the Union as a slave state failed. An amended bill for gradually eliminating slavery in Missouri precipitated two years of bitter debate in Congress.

    The Missouri Compromise bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with Maine, a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Missouri forever.

    In foreign affairs Monroe proclaimed the fundamental policy that bears his name, responding to the threat that the more conservative governments in Europe might try to aid Spain in winning back her former Latin American colonies. Monroe did not begin formally to recognize the young sister republics until 1822, after ascertaining that Congress would vote appropriations for diplomatic missions. He and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wished to avoid trouble with Spain until it had ceded the Floridas, as was done in 1821.

    Great Britain, with its powerful navy, also opposed reconquest of Latin America and suggested that the United States join in proclaiming "hands off." Ex-Presidents Jefferson and Madison counseled Monroe to accept the offer, but Secretary Adams advised, "It would be more candid ... to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war."

    Monroe accepted Adams's advice. Not only must Latin America be left alone, he warned, but also Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast. ". . . the American continents," he stated, "by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power." Some 20 years after Monroe died in 1831, this became known as the Monroe Doctrine.
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    Born: April 28th, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia

    Died: July 4, 1831 in New York, New York

    Married to Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

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  • jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    O.K., guns-n-painthorses, since I like guns and am learning to ride on a Paint, you get a dozen for your well-worded snotty comment[;)] I could not think of any easier way t stir up the late-night crowd. Sorry for pushing history.

    Send a address and they is coming your way. And if you think you don't need them, wait until you give a couple to a friend, your mechanic, etc. These things are very handy.
  • jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    Blue, good, but not good enough. But I'll send you three. Email Address and thanks for trying.

    Jim


    THIS GIVE-A-WAY IS OVER.

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  • jsergovicjsergovic Member Posts: 5,526
    edited November -1
    Hey! I still don't see any addresses. Do you want the patches or what?

    dcon12 nine got it
    bluegoose11 three didn't get it yet
    guns-n-painthorses a dozen (for being honest) got it
  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jim,

    You got mail!


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