James Monroe (an haife shi a ranar 28 ga watan Afrilu,shekarar 1758 -ya mutu ranar 4 ga. Watan Yuli, shekarar 1831) shi ne Shugaban Amurka na biyar. Ya fi yarda da Thomas Jefferson da James Madison, shugabannin biyu da suka gabace shi. Yawancin biranen an sanya musu suna Monroe . Monrovia, babban birnin Liberiya, an kuma saka masa suna. An haifi Monroe a Virginia . Lokacin da James yake 16, mahaifinsa ya mutu. Yana ɗan shekara 18, ya shiga Sojojin Nahiyar . Daga baya ya karanci shari'a tare da Thomas Jefferson . Ya auri Elizabeth Kotright a 1789. Monroe ya kasance mai adawa da gwamnatin tarayya ; bai so Tsarin Mulkin Amurka ya zartar ba. An zabe shi zuwa Majalisar Dattijan Amurka a shekarar 1790. Ya taimaka kafa Democratic-Republican Party tare da Jefferson da James Madison . Monroe ya kasance gwamnan Virginia daga 1799 - 1802. Monroe ya tafi Paris don taimakawa wajen sasantawa kan Siyarwar Louisiana, sannan daga baya ya zama Ambasada a Burtaniya. Monroe shi ne Sakataren Harkokin Wajen Madison kuma Sakataren Yaki . Monroe ya kasance shugaban ƙasa daga shekarar 1817 zuwa shekara ta 1825 .