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** Many people thought James Monroe was a very good candidate for president. [|Before he was president], he was part of the American Revolution. By the time he resigned from service he had reached the title of Major. Although he was a Major, there was little possibility of him commanding soldiers in the field and that was the r **** eason for his resignation. After his stint in the Revolution, he began to study law and become a politician. In 1783, after being mentored by Thom **** as Jefferson, he was elected to the Continental Congress. He even went up from that, in 1794 Washington sent Monroe to Paris as a U.S. minister to France to uphold Washington’s policy of Neutrality. Another reason Monroe made a good candidate for president was that he was Secretary of War as well as Secretary of State. With all of his experience he looked like a great person and soon to be a great president. [|In the election of 1816], Monroe was obviously the leading candidate. With the [|Federalists party in disarray] due to their opposition of the war of 1812 Monroe was easily elected. With the final tally for Electoral votes Monroe had 183 while his opposition, Rufus King, had 34. The following [|election of 1820] was a similar story. The Federalists party had completely collapsed and Monroe fell one vote short of a unanimous election for the second time in history. The first, of course, the election of George Washington. In his Inaugural addresses Monroe wanted to keep the policy of Neutrality around the world. However, he later changed his policy to something we hadn't seen yet from an American president. In the Monroe Doctrine, he states we are pretty much going to protect the whole western hemisphere and both Americas from European advances to colonize. It would have been a major surprise if Monroe was not elected for his two terms. **


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