James Monroe (New York politician) several children. His paternal 2x-great grandfather, Patrick Andrew Monroe, emigrated to America from Scotland in the mid-17th century. In 1650, he patented a large tract of land in Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Among James Monroe's ancestors were French Huguenot immigrants, who came to Virginia in 1700. Monroe graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1815, and was commissioned in the Artillery Corps. Shortly after graduating, he was sent to fight in the war with Algiers, and was wounded while serving as a gunnery officer on board the USS "Guerriere". From 1817 to 1822, he served as aide-de-camp to
James Monroe Smith penned "Training of High School Teachers in Louisiana". Smith was a golfer with interests also in bridge playing, football, and reading. Smith died at the age of sixty of a heart attack at Angola, Louisiana. A 1935 photograph Smith with Huey Long by the late Fonville Winans can be accessed online. Another photograph of Smith at Angola Penitentiary appeared in newspapers such as the "Miami News" on December 2, 1939. James Monroe Smith James Monroe Smith Sr. (October 9, 1888 – June 6, 1949), was the president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during the 1930s. He was