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June 18, 2023

SATT 022 - James Monroe

SATT 022 - James Monroe

Tenure of Office: April 6, 1811 - March 4, 1817 (as Secretary of State); September 27, 1814 - March 2, 1815 (as Secretary of War)

James Monroe is one of the rare Cabinet members who served in two Cabinet positions simultaneously, and what is really remarkable about Monroe's doing so is that it was in the midst of the War of 1812 when he led both the State and War Departments. Listen as my special guest, Joe Faykosh from Visiting the Presidents, and I explore his life and lengthy career of public service and determine whether Monroe earned a seat at the table of the Cabinet All-Stars.

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Seat At The Table

Special thanks to Joe Faykosh, and be sure to check out Visiting the Presidents wherever you get your podcasts!

Sources Utilized:

  • Ammon, Harry. James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999 [1971].
  • Cusick, James G. The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2007 [2003].
  • Hart, Gary. James Monroe. New York: Times Books, 2005.
  • Jefferson, Thomas. "To James Monroe, 1 January 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0150. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 176–179.] [Last Accessed: 11 Dec 2023]
  • Leiner, Frederick C. The End of Barbary Terror: America’s 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • McGrath, Tim. James Monroe: A Life. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020.
  • Monroe, James. "To Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0134. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 153–155.] [Last Accessed: 11 Dec 2023]
  • Picone, Louis L. Where the Presidents Were Born: The History and Preservation of the Presidential Birthplaces. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2012.
  • Skeen, C Edward. John Armstrong, Jr. 1758-1843: A Biography. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1981.
  • White, Leonard D. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History 1801-1829. New York: The Macmillan Co, 1956 [1951].

Featured Image: "James Monroe" by William James Hubbard [c. 1832], courtesy of Wikipedia

Joe Faykosh