Democratic-Republican · 1817–1825
James Monroe
Era of Good Feelings, the Missouri Compromise, and a hemispheric doctrine.
James Monroe was president 1817–1825. The party color on the chart is Democratic-Republican. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: Era of Good Feelings, the Missouri Compromise, and a hemispheric doctrine.
The dot is economics +10 and authority +16. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: A politics without parties, and the Americas closed to new European colonies. Done: The doctrine was declared. The Missouri Compromise showed the parties were only resting. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865, +10 / +20) and Zachary Taylor (1849–1850, +8 / +12). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.