The Most Popular President You've Never Heard Of

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Mr. Beat tells the story of a president, though forgotten about today, was so popular when he was in office that he ran for re-election unopposed.

Here's a song Mr. Beat made about James Monroe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_ySZYtsH4&list=RD8j_ySZYtsH4&
Stream it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1zHCk7KiRJRyQCAQ8EiZu6

Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. Produced by Matt Beat. Filmed by Shannon Beat, L. Beat, R. Beat, and Matt Beat. Additional images used under fair use guidelines or found in the public domain. Creative commons credits: Famartin, Smash the Iron Cage, Farragutful, and Martin Kraft. Music by Electric Needle Room (Mr. Beat's band), RalphReal, Reed Mathis, Cooper Cannell, Inaban, Oatmello, and Quiet Soundwaves Studio.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aGvBW_ZjMhnchCCFOFWNwxyY7HHYg4tQ5dijLzyAJ3U/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/further reading:
James Monroe: A Life by Tim McGrath
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Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
by Harlow Giles Unger
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James Monroe: The American Presidents Series: The 5th President, 1817-1825 by Gary Hart
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James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon
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https://academics.umw.edu/jamesmonroepapers/
https://millercenter.org/president/monroe
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/james-monroe
https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/monroe-james
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOb-nGmYlYg
https://highland.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1817-Northern-Tour-James-Monroes-Highland-web2.pdf
https://highland.org/discover-highland/
https://www.reddit.com/r/James_Monroe/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/james-monroe
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-enslaved-households-of-president-james-monroe

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Today, most historians remember Monroe as a stabilizing figure in a young republic. He wasn’t flashy but did a lot of important behind-the-scenes work expanding American power. As president, he was well-respected by people with a wide range of different political beliefs. He brought Americans together, and due to this newspapers rarely criticized him. He was one of the few American presidents to remain very popular the entire time he was in office. I know it’s hard to imagine for Americans today, but his presidency marked a time when there was basically only one major political party in charge and everybody seemed ok with it. Heck, his time as president is still often known as The Era of Good Feelings.