James Monroe a dispute over the admission of Missouri roiled the country in 1820. Nonetheless, Monroe won near-unanimous reelection. Monroe supported the founding of colonies in Africa for freed slaves that would eventually form the nation of Liberia, whose capital, Monrovia, is named in his honor. In 1823, he announced the United States' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy. His presidency concluded the first period of American presidential history before the beginning of Jacksonian democracy and the Second Party System era. Following his
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