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James Monroe

Presidency

What members of Monroe’s cabinet later ran for president?

Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams, later became his successor and the sixth president of the United States. His secretary of the treasury, William H. Crawford, ran against Quincy Adams and others during the election of 1824. Monroe’s attorney general, William Wirt, ran as a minor third-party candidate during the election of 1832.



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