Presidency of James Monroe its claims to lands north of parallel 54°40′ north, and also agreed to open Russian ports to U.S. ships. Five new states were admitted to the Union while Monroe was in office: During James Monroe’s first term, the country had suffered an economic depression and slavery had emerged as a divisive issue. Despite these problems, the collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed, the only president other than George Washington to do so. A single elector from New Hampshire, William Plumer, cast a vote
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