MONROE, JAMES. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, April 28, 1758;
member of Virginia assembly, 1782; member of Congress, 1783-86; United
States senator, 1790-94; minister to France, 1794-96; governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802; minister to Great Britain, 1803-07; secretary of
state, 1811-17; President, 1817-25, an administration, known as "the era
of good feeling"; died at New York City, July 4, 1831.
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Born at Braintree, Massachusetts, July 11, 1767;
graduated at Harvard, 1788; admitted to the bar, 1791; minister to the
Netherlands, 1794-97; and to Prussia, 1797-1801; United States senator,
1803-08; minister to Russia, 1809-14; minister to England, 1815-17;
secretary of state, 1817-25; President, 1825-29; member of Congress,
1831-48; died at Washington, February 23, 1848.
JACKSON, ANDREW. Born at the Waxham settlement, North Carolina (?),
March 15, 1767; member of Congress, 1796-97; United States senator,
1797-98; justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1798-1804; defeated
the Creeks at Talladega, 1813, and at Horseshoe Bend, 1814; captured
Pensacola from the English, 1814; won the battle of New Orleans, January
8, 1815; commanded against the Seminoles, 1817-18; governor of Florida,
1821; United States senator, 1823-25; defeated for President by J.Q.
Adams, 1824; President, 1829-37; died at the Hermitage, near
Nashville, Tennessee, June 8, 1845.
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