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Birth
Virginia -
Battle of Trenton
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hero at the Battle of Trenton
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Battle of Princeton
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valley forge
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House of Delegates
Elected to the Virginia House of Delegates -
Education
William and Mary collage -
Marriages
Elizabeth Kortright -
job
lawyer -
children 1
Eliza Monroe -
children 2
James Spence Monroe -
governor of Virginia
severed three terms -
children 3
Maria Hester Monroe -
first president to ride a steamboat
He's was traveling though the southern states -
political party
Democratic republic -
Bought Florida from Spain
5 million -
laws
Missouri compromise
made Missouri a slave state -
left office
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retired
retired to Virginia, where he helped preside over a new state constitution in 1829. After his wife died in 1830, Monroe moved in with his daughter in New York City -
Death fact
3rd president to die on July 4 -
Death
tuberculosis -
Buried
Hollywood Cemetery
