James Monroe (New York politician)

James Monroe ( born September 10, 1799 in Albemarle County, Virginia; † September 7, 1870 in Orange, New Jersey) was an American soldier and politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Monroe was born in the late 18th century. He graduated in 1815 at the United States Military Academy at West Point and was then assigned to the Artillery Corps. He took part in the fighting during the Second Barbary War. Then he was 1817-1822 aide- de-camp of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. In 1821 he was promoted in the fourth regiment of artillery to the Second Lieutenant. He then went to 1832 after his garrison duty and served as purser ( commissary ) operates. In 1832 he was again appointed aide- de-camp of Lieutenant-General Scott, to participate in the Black Hawk campaign, but could not reach the seat of war due to an illness. He then announced on September 30, 1832 back his commission. He retired in the same year to New York City where he worked as Assistant Alderman. Between 1833 and 1835, he was alderman and in 1834 President of the Board of Aldermen.

Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, Edward Curtis, Josiah O. Hoffman and Ely Moore took on March 4, 1839 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1840, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1841 from the Congress of. In 1847 he contested the election of David S. Jackson, however, the U.S. House of Representatives that no party had a right to these headquarters decided. He declined a re- nomination for the resulting vacancy. Then he sat in the years 1850 and 1852 in the Senate from New York.

Monroe retired after from the public life and settled in Orange, where he died on 7 September 1870. His body was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery at One Hundred and Fifty -fifth Street and Broadway in New York City. President James Monroe (1758-1831) was his uncle.