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James Monroe (1758-1831) was an American politician and the fifth president of the United States. He served in the Virginia General Assembly in 1782, as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1786 and later as minister to France (1794-1796). Monroe also served as a Virginia delegate to the Confederation Congress, along with Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Hardy. Monroe first met Short at the College of William and Mary and became long-life friends. When Gouverneur Morris was appointed minister to France to succeed Jefferson, Monroe led the Senate's opposition to this nomination, preferring Short for the position.
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George A. Shackelford, Jefferson's Adoptive Son: The Life of William Short, 1759-1848 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1993), passim.
“II. Deed of Cession as Executed, 1 March 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-06-02-0419-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 6, 21 May 1781–1 March 1784, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, pp. 577–580.]
The Hornbook of Virginia History. Members of the Continental Congress from Virginia. (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/members-of-the-continental-congress-from-virginia, accessed 21 August 2025.
Peter Thompson, Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), passim.
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