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Monroe, James (Educator United States senator)

educator, United States senator, congressman, was born July 18, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn. He was a professor in Oberlin college from 1849 until 1862. He was a member of the Connecticut state house of representatives in 1856-59, and of the state senate in 1860-62; and was chosen president of the senate in 1861, and again in 1862. He was United States consul at Rio Janeiro from 1863 to 1869; serving for several months of 1869 as charge d' affaires ad interim at that capital. He was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, and fortyfourth congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.

Since leaving congress he has filled the chair of political science and modern history in Oberlin college.