JAMES MONROE, 5TH PRESIDENT I :
James Monroe 17^8-1831
President of the United States of America 1817-1825
THE TOURIST who makes a pilgrimage to James Monroe's two Virginia homes, Ash Lawn in Charlottesville and Oak Hill in Leesburg, carries away a sense of serenity, dignity and decent accomplishment. In the nation's folklore Monroe figures as one of the Virginia Dynasty, the fourth of five Presidents to come from the Old Dominion. He is associated with the Monroe Doctrine. His eight years in the White House are recalled as the "era of good feelings"—a period almost free from political strife. According to legend Monroe would have received a unanimous electoral vote when he was re-elected in 1820, except that a single elector who plumped for John Quincy Adams did so merely in order to reserve the H unique distinction of unanimity for George Washington. In actuality Monroe's career was much less comfortable. As a diplomat in Europe he offended both President Washington and President Jefferson. He irritated Madison by offering himself as a rival candidate for the Presidency in 1808. Though he made a good enough record in Madison's Administration as Secretary of State, later also managing to carry out the duties of Secretary of War, he was not the universal favorite among the Republicans for the presidential nomination in 1816. Severe in manner and in dress, he was a less attractive figure than the big, handsome William H. Crawford of Georgia. Some politicos grumbled that it was time to look outside Virginia. Nor was his wife, the daughter of an officer in the British Army, a match for Dolley Madison in natural vivacity. The Monroes went to considerable expense to redecorate the White House—badly needed after the British raid of 1814. They entertained ambitiously. But Elizabeth Kortright Monroe suffered increasingly from migraines and depression. There was plenty in the Washington scene to give headaches to the White House. Gossip soon 132 Burke's Presidential Families of the United States
dismissed Monroe as a dull, mediocre person, nowhere near as politically successful as Jefferson and less intellectually gifted than Madison. With an eye to their own presidential chances, his Secretary of State (J. Q. Adams) and his Secretary of the Treasury (Crawford) began 10 provoke one another. Monroe could assert himself neither with his cabinet nor with Congress. The Administration, Adams sourly noted in his journal, "is at war with itself, both in the Executive, and between the Executive and the Legislature". Much of the initiative for the Monroe Doctrine (a section of the President's annual message to Congress in 1823) came from Adams. Monroe was almost a cipher in his second term. In the words of the powerful Congressman Henry Clay, "there was nothing further to be expected by him or from him". Worse still for Monroe, his re-election coincided with an economic depression. There was little he could do to remedy matters. But his apparent indifference to business failures and out-of-work operatives made him seem still more impotent, unhkeable and irrelevant. His own salary of $25,000 a year (a sum fixed in 1789, and to remain fixed until it was doubled in 1873) looked opulent in comparison with the Vice-President's $5,000 or the niggardly $3,500 paid to heads of executive departments. His expenses however were heavy, and nineteenth-century Presidents did not receive a pension. When he retired from office in 1825, with six years still to live, Monroe's finances were in disastrous shape. Like Jefferson and Madison before him, he was on the brink of ruin when he died. Indeed, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier and Ash Lawn are all in better condition today, thanks to careful restoration, than when their owners were laid to rest. This sounds like a gloomy verdict on Monroe—in colors as dark as the formal clothes he wore. If it is true, why was he nevertheless selected in 1816, and again in 1820 ? One of the axioms of presidential politics is that a depression kills the chances of re-election. Van Buren was to be punished in this way in 1840, and Herbert Hoover in 1932. Another general rule is that those who follow in the wake of strong Presidents usually face a counter-attack from Congress. And from a twentieth-century perspective, one would not expect the nation to accept a sequence of Presidents from the same state. The main explanation is that the political circumstances of Monroe's era were different from ours, and still seeking firm definition. It looked as though the route to the Presidency would run from, the Vice-Presidency or the Secretaryship of State. Monroe had strong claims to the White House. He had served his country or his state almost continuously ever since his enlistment in the Continental Army at the age of eighteen. He had been a member of the Continental Congress, a leader of the US Senate, and twice Governor of Virginia. He was an experienced if not a dazzlingly successful diplomat. Perhaps most important of all, he had been closely connected politically m. With an 3. Adams) •ovoke one :t nor with irnal, "is at ive and the a section of )m Adams, ards of the rther to be
n economic rs. But his operatives it. His own i fixed until i with the of executive nth-century fice in 1825, shape. Like jin when he sh Lawn are a when their is dark as the s selected in litics is that a be punished sneral rule is sually face a perspective, sidents from ELIZABETH KORTRIGHT, MRS MONROE of Monroe's . It looked as Presidency or iVhite House. bver since his ^e had been a ite, and twice ;ly successful :ly connected 134 Burke's Presidential Families of the United States
with Jefferson ever since 1780. A cynic might have said that Monroe was a veteran professional patriot. A fairer comment is that he was a thoroughly deserving public figure, untouched by scandal, who was given his due reward—the ultimate, highest office in the land. In a sense he was lucky to be nominated in 1816, and again in 1820. He was chosen because he was there, the most obvious person for the Republican caucus to pick, and because the rival Federalist party was in collapse. He was renominate'd and re-elected not out of positive enthusiasm but in the absence of any viable alternative. (Incidentally, the New Hampshire elector who cast a solitary vote for Adams did so simply because he preferred Adams: he had no idea he was the only dissenter.) Monroe was unlucky, though, in other respects. It was not his fault that the Presidency had fallen into partial eclipse, overshadowed by Congress. Much of the political bad feeling that in fact marred the supposed era of good feeling was a consequence of the temporary blurring of party lines. Americans had not yet come to regard a two-party system as a desirable arrangement. According to the conventional wisdom of the period, which Monroe shared, "party" was a sign of corruption and crisis. He and his contemporaries were baffled by the rancorous mood in Washington, when the United States as a whole was clearly prospering. Monroe's situation, rather than any personal deficiencies, is the reason why his leadership was so indecisive. Deprived of a political organization, including the reinforcement of patronage, he was a general without an army. He had the trappings of authority but not its weaponry. As President he did what he could—doggedly, decently, a little dismally. The last of the Jeffersonians, at least he contrived to die on the same day as his great mentor, 4 July, five years after Jefferson, as if to remind his countrymen that he too belonged in the Revolutionary pantheon. Monroe was a >a thoroughly given his due
in in 1820. He srson for the Chronology list party was it of positive :identally, the did so simply 1758 Born at Monroe's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia 28 April. ily dissenter.) 1770-74 Attended the Rev Archibald Campbell's private School in \\estmoreland s not his fault County. •shadowed by 1774 Entered William and Mary College 20 June. :t marred the orary blurring 1776 Left William and Mary College; Cadet in 3rd \irginia Regt under Col Hugh Mercer; commissioned Lieut and ordered to main Armv under Gen larty system as Washington; fought in Battles of Harlem Heights (16 Sept) and\e Plains (28 wisdom of the Oct); retreated with Army through New Jersey; wounded at Battle of Trenton :ion and crisis, (26 Dec) and promoted Capt for his service there. rous mood in ADC to C-in-C William Alexander (styled Earl of Stirling) July; fought in ly prospering. Battles of Brandywine (11 Sept) and Germantown (4 Oct); promoted Major , is the reason 20 Nov. I organization, Served with Washington and Alexander at Valley Forge; fought in Battle of 'al without an Monmouth 28 June; returned to Virginia and on Washington's recommendation weaponry. As was apptd Lt-Col of a command to be raised in Virginia, but the exhausted ittle dismally, finances of the state prevented this; re-entered William and Mary College. tie same day as 1780-83 Studied law under Thomas Jefferson at Williamsburg. to remind his 1780 Visited Southern Army as Military Commissioner (with rank of Lt-Col) from intheon. Virginia. 1782 Elected to House of Delegates from King George County and appointed member of Executive Council by Virginia Assembly. 1783 Elected delegate from Virginia to Continental Congress 6 June for three-year term beginning 3 Nov; ratification of peace treaty with Great Britain at Annapolis 13 Dec. 1784 Toured NW frontier to investigate what type of government Congress should establish for frontier lands June; attended Congress at Trenton Nov. 1786 Member of Virginia Assembly; admitted to Virginia bar Oct; attended Annapolis Convention Nov. 1787 Re-elected to Virginia Assembly. 1788 Apptd to the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution 2 June; published Observations Upon the Proposed Plan of Federal Government, but withheld it from circulation later; defeated by Madison for the House of Representatives in the 1'st Congress under the new Constitution. 1789 Returned to law practice. 136 Burke's Presidential Families of the United States
1790 Elected United States Senator from Virginia to fill vacancy caused by death of William Grayson 9 Nov; took seat in Senate at Philadelphia 6 Dec. 1791 Re-elected Senator 3 March; member of Commission for revising laws of Virginia. 1792 Member of Senatorial Committee to investigate Alexander Hamilton's handling of public funds. 1794 Retired from Senate 27 May on appointment as L S Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic; arrived in Pans and was received by the National Convention Aug; effected release of Thomas Paine (the author of the celebrated Declaration of the Rights of Man, published three years previously) from Luxembourg Prison, Paris 4 Nov. 1796 Recalled 22 Aug (received letter of recall Nov); took leave of French Government 30 Dec. 1797 Arrived in Philadelphia June. 1798 Moved to Ash Lawn, Charlottesville, Virginia. 1799 Elected Governor of Virginia 6 Dec. 1802 Retired as Governor. 1803 Appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France to arrange terms of Louisiana Purchase 11 Jan; arrived in Paris 12 April; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain 18 April; Louisiana Purchase concluded 30 April; left France for England July. 1803-07 Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain and Envoy Extraordinary to Spain. 1806 Appointed Commissioner (jointly with William Pinkney) for settlement of differences between US and Great Britain 12 May; signed (with Pinkney) Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation with Great Britain 31 Dec. 1807 Jefferson refused to send Treaty of Amity to Senate for consideration March; left London 29 Oct and arrived in US Dec. 1808 Unsuccessful candidate for the Presidency. 1810-11 Member of Virginia Assembly. 1811 Governor of Virginia Jan-March. 1811-14 Secretary of State under President Madison. 1811 Took office 6 April; gave tacit approval to Gen George Mathews's plans to invade Florida. 1812 Withdrew support from Mathews. 1813 Secretary of War ad interim 1 Jan-5 Feb. 1814 Secretary of War ad interim 3-27 Sept; Secretary of War 27 Sept; retired as Secretary of State 30 Sept but continued as Secretary ad interim till 28 Feb 1815. 1815 Re-appointed Secretary of State 28 Feb; retired from Secretaryship 2 March. 1816 Nominated for President by Democratic-Republicans 4 March; elected President with 183 electoral votes as opposed to 34 for RufusKing, the Federalist candidate 4 Dec. 1817 Inaugurated as 5th President of the United States on the east portico of the Capitol 4 March; Rush-Bagot Agreement with Great Britain signed 29 April; first Seminole War began 20 Nov. James Monroe, 5th President 137
1818 Signed Flag Act 4 April (establishing flag as having 13 horizontal red and white ed by death of stripes and a white star for each state on blue field); 1st Semmole War ended 24 3ec." May. vising laws of 1819 Signed treaty with Spain whereby US received Florida 22 Feb. 1820 Signed Missouri Compromise Bill 3 March; re-elected President without ton's handling opposition 6 Dec. 1821 Inaugurated for second term as President in Hall of Representatives of the nipotentiary to Capitol 5 March (the 4th, the actual anniversary, fell on a Sunday). the National : the celebrated 1823 Drew up the celebrated Monroe Doctrine (against foreign colonization or :viously) from intervention in the New World) with aid of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and enunciated the same 2 Dec. ive of French 1825 Retired from office; attended inauguration of his successor John Quincy Adams 4 March; moved to Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia. 1826 Voted $30,000 by Congress in settlement of claims against the Government for reimbursement of expenses in public service. 1828-31 Member of Board of Visitors of University of Virginia. 1829 President of Virginia Constitutional Convention. v to France to 1831 Sold Oak Hill and moved to New York City; died of debility in New York City pril; appointed 4 July; buried in Marble Cemetery, New York City. siana Purchase 1858 Re-interred at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
inary to Spain. [r settlement of 3mkney) Treaty (ec. ieration March; The Writings of President Monroe
Observations Upon the Proposed Plan of Federal Government (1788) 's plans to invade A View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States (1797) The Writings of James Monroe, 1 vols (1898-1903) Papers of James Monroe, edited by S. M. Hamilton (1904) Sept; retired as ill 28 Feb 1815. Some of President Monroe's letters have been published in Proceedings of ryship 2 March. the Massachusetts Historical Society, VolXLII (1909) and in Bulletin of the New York Public Library (1900, 1901 and 1902) March; elected ng, the Federalist Diplomatic correspondence has been published in American State Papers, Foreign Relations, Vol III (1832) kst portico of the The Autobiography of James Monroe, edited by Stuart Gerry Brown with signed 29 April; assistance of Donald G. Baker (1959) Lineagoe of President Monroe
The Monroes are cadets of the great Scottish baronial house of MUNRO oj Foulis (see Bl RKE'S Peerage, MUNRO of Foulis-Obsdale, Bt for a full account of the family). GEORGE MUNRO (orMONROE) of Katewell; 5th son of Robert Munro of Foulis (seeBTRKE'S Peerage. MUNRO of Foulis-Obsdale, Bt), by his wife Margaret, dau of Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, Sheriff of Moray ; k at the Battle of Pinkie (with his father) 10 Sept 1547, leaving issue, GEORGE MONROE, 2nd of Katewell, m 1st, Katherine, dau of Hector Mackenzie, 4th of Fairburn. He m 2ndly, Euphemia, dau of John Monroe of Pittonachy, and by her had issue. He m3rdly, Agnes, only dau of Hugh Monroe of Coul and Balconie. His son by his 2nd marriage, DAVID MONROE, m Agnes, dau of Rev Alexander Munro, of Durness, by his wife Janet Gumming, and had with other issue, a 3rd son, who may have been ANDREW MONROE, went to St Mary's County, Maryland ca 1641, and was assessed there July 1642 in a tax of fifty pounds of tobacco to sustain the war against the Susquehanna Indians, apptd to sit (or to send his proxy) on the Assembly 22 Aug 1642, and on joining Col Claiborne in 1644-45, he with several others (including Nathaniel Pope, an ancestor of George Washington) supported the claims of one Richard Ingle, who claimed to represent Parliament, and raised an insurrection against the Dep Gov, but had their property confiscated and fled across the Potomac into Virginia, believed to have returned to Scotland 1648 and to have fought under Gen Sir George Monroe at the Battle of Preston 17 Aug 1648, been taken prisoner and banished to Virginia, but escaped and settled in Northumberland County, where he received several grants of land 8 June 1650, later patented other and more extensive lands in Westmoreland County, m 1652, Elizabeth (who m 2ndly ante 30 July 1679, George Horner; and 3rdly ante 23 Feb 1686, Edward Mountjoy), believed to have been the dau of John Alexander, and d 1668 (bur nr Doctors Point, Westmoreland County, Virginia), leaving issue, with one other son, WILLIAM MONROE, of Westmoreland County, Virginia, b 1666, m 1689, Margaret, dau of Thomas Bowcock, and d 1737 (will dated 13 March), having had, with other issue (see BL'RKE'S Distinguished Families of America), a yr son, ANDREW MONROE, Sheriff of Westmoreland County in 1731, m Christian Tyler, widow of his cousin Spence Monroe, and dvp 1735, leaving issue, SPENCE MONROE, of Westmoreland County, Virginia, farmer and circuit judge, a signer of Westmoreland County, Virginia Resolutions forbidding the enforcement of the Stamp Act in that County, m 1752, Elizabeth (b probably in King George County, Virginia), dau of James Jones, architect, by his wife Hester, and sister of Judge Joseph Jones (1727-1805), and d 1774 (will dated 14 Feb), leaving, with other issue (see BROTHERS AND SISTER OF PRESIDENT MONROE), an eldest son, JAMES MONROE, 5th President of the United States of America.
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The Descendants of President Monroe
JAMES MONROE m at Trinity Episcopal Church, New York 16 Feb 1786, Elizabeth (6 in New York s(seeBl'RKE'S Peerage, City 30 June 1768; d at Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia 23 Sept 1830, bur first at Oak Hill, reinterred of Westfield, Sheriff of beside her husband at Hollywood, Richmond, Virginia 1903), eldest dau of Laurence Kortright, of New York, merchant, one of the founders of the New York Chamber of Commerce (descended from a family of ie, 4th of Fairburn. He Flemish origin), by his wife Hannah Aspinwall1, and had issue, 3rdly, Agnes, only dau
1 Eliza Kortright MONROK, known in France as "La Belle Eleanor Reeve, and has issue, e Janet Gumming, and Americaine", b at Fredericksburg, Virginia 5 Dec 17S7. educ in if*Robert Baden PATTERSON, 6 at Balti- France, m 17 Oct 1808, as his 2nd wife, Judge George Hay, of more 20 Dec 1068. Richmond, Virginia, who as I'S District Attorney conducted 2f »Lloyd Reeve PATTERSON, b at Baltimore bed there July 1642 in a the prosecution for treason of Vice-Pres Aaron Burr 1806-07 (6 11 April 1970. at Williamsburg, Virginia 15 Dec 1765; d at Richmond, 3o Elizabeth Kortright HARDESTY, 6 1867, m John S. apptd to sit (or to send Virginia 21 Sept 1830), son of Anthony Hay, bv his wife Richardson, of Bel Air, Maryland (b 1864; d 1927), and he with several others Elizabeth Davenport, and d at 62 Avenue des Champs Elysee, d 26 Mav 1955, having had issue, Paris, France 27 Jan 1840 (bur Pere Lachaise Cemetery), 16 John Monroe RICHARDSON", of Denver, Colorado, 5 of one Richard Ingle, leaving issue, b 1890, m 1st, Evelyn Davis; and 2ndly, Marguerite p Gov, but had their Hortensia (Hortense)1 Monroe HAY, b ca 1809, m S July 1829, Mclntire, and dsp 1954. irned to Scotland 1648 as his 2nd wife, Nicholas Lloyd Rogers3 of Druid Hill, 26• Lloyd Nicholas RICHARDSON, 6 1891, m •Mary- Baltimore, Maryland (A ca 1787; d at Baltimore 12 Nov 1860), Geneva Dean. 1-8, been taken prisoner son of Nicholas Rogers, by his wife Eleanor Buchanan, and d 36 Elizabeth Hardesty RICHARDSON, 6 1893; d aged ere he received several 10 Dec 1854, leaving issue, 8 months. (1) Harriet ROGERS, m as his 1st wife, Charles Wilmer, and 4t»Richard Hardesty RICHARDSON, 6 1894, m stmoreland County, m dsp. • Margaret Hoffman, and has issue, 23 Feb 1686, Edward (2) Mary Custis ROGERS, m 1st, — Harris, son of — Ic •"Richard Hardesty RICHARDSON, Jr, 6 1941. Harris, of Baltimore, dentist, and had issue, 2r«Nancy RICHARDSON, 6 1947. >ur nr Doctors Point, la Barton Chapin HARRIS, d young. 56*Eleanor" Agnes RICHARDSON, 6 1896, m 1923, She m 2ridly, Richard Hardesty (d 1871), and d 1869, • Dr Charles B. Canton, and has issue, leaving further issue, !<•• Eleanor Agnes CANTON, 6 1927, m 1952, garet, dau of Thomas 2a Hortense Hay HARDESTY, b 24 Oct 1865, m William • John Zink. Watson Mclntire, mem House of Reps (6 at Chambers- 2c»Geraldine CANTON, 6 1928. Bl'RKE'S Distinguished burg, Pennsylvania 30 June 1850; d in Baltimore 66»James Jerome RICHARDSON, 6 1901, m 1927, County, Maryland 30 March 1912), and a1 1933, having • Martha Evans, and has issue, had issue, • James Jerome RICHARDSON, Jr, b 1931, m 1953, r, widow of his cousin 16 Mary Custis McINTIRE, b 24 Aug 1887; d 10 April •» Sally Brown Thomas, and has issue, 1897. • John David RICHARDSON, b April 1955. 26 Hortense Rogers McINTIRE, b at Baltimore 3 Jan 76»Frances Kortright Monroe RICHARDSON [6/0 1889, m there 23 Jan 1907, John William Stork, of North Carolina Avenue, S.E., Washington, DC 20003, t judge, a signer of Roland Park, Maryland (6 at Baltimore 26 Jan 1871; d USA], b 1904, m 1935, Dr Aloysius William np Act in that County, there 13 Nov 1958), son of William L. Stork, by his Valentine (6 1875; d 1951). , architect, by his wife wife Clintonia, and d 27 Sept 1951, having had issue, (3) Hortense ROGERS, m — Cozens (or Cousins ?). \ Anne Monroe STORK, 6 at Baltimore 20 June 2 A son4, 6 May 1799; d at Richmond, Virginia 28 Sept 1800. b), leaving, with other 1909; dunm 8 Oct 1936. 3 Maria Hester MONROE, 6 in Pans, France 1803, m at the 2c Lloyd Rogers STORK, 6 at Baltimore 5 Aug White House, Washington, DC*9 March 1820, her 1st cousin, 1911; d there 29 Jan 1929. Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, of New York, mem New York 3c»Jean Monroe STORK, b at Baltimore 24 Dec State Legislature, priv sec to his father-in-law Pres Monroe, 1913, m there 17 June 1938, •Bernard S. Postmaster of New York City 1828-36 (6 1799; d 1867), son of Kamtman (b at Baltimore 16 March 1907) [14 St Nicholas Gouverneur, of New York, by his wife Hester, dau of Martin's Road, Baltimore, Maryland 212IS, USA], Laurence Kortright (and sister of Mrs James Monroe—see son of George Kamtman, by his wife Helen above), and d at Oak Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia 1850, Kaufman, and has issue, leaving issue, • Sandra Monroe KAMTMAN, b at Baltimore 8 1 James Monroe GOUVERNEUR, a deaf mute, dunm. Jan 1943, m there Sept 1966, • Robert Urie 1 Elizabeth Kortright GOUVERNEUR, b at Washington, DC, Patterson, Jr (6 at Washington, DC) [5605 m 1st there 9 June 1842, Henry Lee Heiskell, MD, Major and Enderly Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, Surg US Army (b at Winchester, Virginia 1799; d at USA], son of Robert Urie Patterson, by his wife Meechwood 12 Aug 1855, bur Washington, DC), son of John 140 Burke's Presidential Families of the United States
Heiskell, by his wife Ann Sowers, and had issue, Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 USA], and (1) James Monroe HKISKELL, lawyer, one of "Mosby's has issue, men" in the CSA, candidate for the mayoralty of • Kathenne Fairfax WRIGHT, b at Morehead Baltimore, b at Washington, DC 5 June 1844, m 1st at City, North Carolina 2 Oct 1976. Leesburg, \a 26 Feb 1867, Esther Fairfax (6 1847; d 3a (James) Monroe HEISKELL, b 20 May 1872; d 20 Oct at Baltimore, Maryland 18 July 1873), dan of Co! John 1873. West Minor, bv his wife Louisa Fairfax, and had issue, James Monroe Heiskell m 2ndly at Philadelphia 2 July la Teakle Wallace HEISKELL, b at Leesburg, Virginia 1882, Mary (who m Zndly, J. Herman Ireland, and d at 29 Jan 1868;d ca 1873. Baltimore 1941), dau of Bronaugh Derringer, by his wife 2a Minor Fairfax Heiskell GOUVERNEUR (assumed the Estalena Woodland, and d 1899, having by her had issue, surname of Gouverneur in lieu of that of his patronymic 4a Marian Gouverneur HEISKELL, b at Baltimore 27 Heiskell), of Baltimore, inventor and banker, 6 at June 1886, m 1st there 1905, Richard Emory (b at Baltimore 15 Dec 1869, m at Wilmington, N Carolina 2 Inverness, Baltimore County, Marvland 1870; d at San Dec 1896, his 3rd cousin Mary Fairfax ib at Wilmington Jose, California Nov 1906), son of Thomas Lane Emory-, 30 Sept 1874; d at Alexandria, Virginia 27 May 1956), by his wife Griselda Holmes, and had issue, elder dau of George Davis, Attorney-Gen of the • Elizabeth Kortnght Monroe EMORY, b at Confederacy, by his wife Mommia, 3rd dau of Dr Baltimore Feb 11 1907, m there 1929, .G. Gordon Orlando Fairfax, of Alexandria and Richmond, Gatchell (6 at Baltimore 1898) [/ Harvest Road, Virginia, by his wife Mary Randolph, 2nd dau of Wilson Baltimore, Maryland 21200, USA], son of Sklpwith Jefferson Cary, of Carysbrook, great-nephew of Pres Gordon Gatchell, by his wife Gertrude Gantz, and Jefferson, and d at Baltimore 8 June 1933, leaving has issue, issue, lc»G. Gordon GATCHF.i.L, Jr [Bedford Road, If) Fairfax Heiskell GOUVERNEl. R. OBE, served in Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773, USA], b at Baltimore World War I and World War 1I as US Army Air Corps 26 Feb 1930, educ Babson Inst, m at Philadelphia Offr, investment banker, b at Yonkers, NY 5 Sept Oct 1953, .Esther Allen (b at Philadelphia 23 Jan 1897, educ Philips Exeter Acad, m at Rochester, New 1932), dau of Donald MacLea, by his wife York 6 June 1922, • Caroline Erickson, dau of Catherine Miskey, and has issue, Thornton Jeffress, by his wife Carolyn Erickson Id*Catharine Allen GATCHELL, b at Bryn Perkins, and d at Clearwater Beach, Florida 15 April Mawr, Pennsylvania 8 July 1954. 1967, having had issue, 2d» Elizabeth Emory GATCHELL, 6 at Concord, lc»Minor Fairfax Heiskell GOIVERNEUR II, Mass 11 April 1956.' Hi engr, designer and mfr of tools [PO Box 105, 3d»William Hugh GATCHELL, b at Concord, I Goshen, Connecticut 06756, USA], b at Rochester, Mass 14 Aug 1962. New York 9 Sept 1923, educ Rensselaer Polytechnic 2c» Richard Emory CATCH ELL, real estate broker, Inst, Troy, New York, m at Maplewood, New partner in firm of Hill and Co, Trustee of Peale Jersey 21 May 1949, .Carolyn Mane, dau of Museum, mem Bd of Soc for Preservation of Reynier Jacob Wortendyke, Jr. and has issue, Maryland Antiquities. Baltimore Heritage, and Soc Id.Elizabeth Rogers GOUVERNEUR, b at for the Preservation of Fells Point arid Federal Hill Rochester, NY 17 May 1950, educ Univ of [BoxSOSB, West Jofpa Road, Lutherville, Maryland Rochester (BA), m at Litchfield, Conn 23 May 21093, USA], b at Baltimore 20 March 1933, educ 1976, .Richard Arnold Cohen, and has issue, Calvert Sch, Gilman Sch for Boys, and Johns • Aaron Erickson COHEN, b at Wilmington, Hopkins Univ, m at the Church of the Redeemer, Delaware 27 Feb 1979. Baltimore Oct 1960, .Margaret Brian (b at Pitt- 2d • Sallie Thornton GOUVERNEUR, b at St sburgh, Pennsylvania 2 Sept 1935), dau of Thomas Charles, Illinois 3 Nov 1951, educ Harvard (B A). Brian Parsons, by his wife Fanny Glenn Whitman, 3d .Jeffress GOUVERNEUR, b at Genera, Illinois and has issue, 30 Oct 1955, educ Boston Univ (BA). ld»Margaret Parsons GATCHELL, b at Balti- 4d .Abigail Josephine GOUVERNEUR, b at more 7 July 1963. Wheaton, Illinois 29 Dec 1960. 2
TON, b 1901, m «Charles g 1897), and has issue, OOD, 6 20 Feb 1929. rerneur HEISKELL, b 1884, •k, of Washington, DC, Sec eel and Ordnance Co (b 23 and d 25 Feb 1978, having I
The Brothers and Sister of President Monroe
1 Elizabeth MONROE, b 1754, m William Buckner, of Mill Hill (b 1753), and had issue, three sons and four daus. Two of her sons dyoung; the 3rd only had one son (who dsp). The daus all m, but only the eldest, Elizabeth Bankhead Buckner, left issue by her marriage to Norborne Taliaferro. Col Thomas Dorsey Taliaferro, CSA (grandson of the last), m 1854 Eliza Lewis Madison, a great-niece of President Madison, and his sister Roberta Willis Taliaferro m William Willis Madison (1826-1888), Eliza Lewis's brother (see MADISON). 2 Spence MONROE, b 1759 (?). 3 Andrew MONROE, m 1789, Ann Bell, and d 1836, leaving issue, two sons, of whom the yr, Col James Monroe (1799-1870) was a mem House of Reps. By his marriage to Elizabeth Mary Douglas he had one son (who d an inf) and one dau, Fannie Monroe (1826-1906), whose only son, by her marriage to Douglas Robinson, of New York, also Douglas Robinson (1855-1918), m Corinne Roosevelt, sister of President Theodore Roosevelt (qv). 4 Joseph Jones MONROE, Commonwealth Attorney, Albemarle County, Virginia, priv sec to his brother Pres Monroe; Clerk of Dist and Circuit Courts, Northumberland County, Virginia, b 1764, m 1st 1790, Elizabeth Kerr, and had issue, one dau, who m, and had issue. He m 2ndly 1801, Sarah Gordon; and 3rdly 1808, Elizabeth Glasscock, by neither of whom he had issue, and d 1824.
Notes
1 Through the Aspinwalls Mrs Monroe was related to the future President Franklin D. Roosevelt (qv).
1 She was named after her mother's friend Hortense, Queen of Holland, the step-daughter and sister-in-law of Napoleon.
3 His first wife was Eliza Parke Custis Law, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington (see PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S WIFE AND STEPCHILDREN).
4 His name is unrecorded, but his gravestone bears the initials "J. S. M.", probably for James Spence Monroe.
5 She was the first daughter of a President to be married in the White House.