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1920-03-22 |
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| Name | James O. Monroe |
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Maywood, Illinois , United States |
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| Info | James O. Monroe was an attorney in Maywood, Illinois who was active in Democratic Party politics.
According to his entry in the U.S. Census of 1910, he was born in 1866 and was married c. 1886 to wife Jenny (also b. 1866); they had two daughters and a son.
Monroe was active in local Democratic Party politics from the late 1890s. He was aligned with the anti- Sullivan Democratic faction in Chicago politics. During a party gathering in Peoria in 1906 he earned the nickname of the "Illinois kicker" (Marengo Republican-News, 1/31/1908). He served for a time as chairman of the DuPage County Democratic Central Committee and was a frequent contender for the party's nomination for various posts. He edited a local Democratic Party periodical and later served as secretary to the Illinois Secretary of State.
Monroe was a Democratic contender for US President in 1920. He filed to have his name placed on the ballot in the South Dakota presidential primary on 12/29/1919. In his announcement that day, he said that he was running to "prevent coal, oil, and transportation monopoly by taxation." Monroe participated in the first presidential primary debate, in which he faced James W. Gerard in South Dakota.
James and Jenny are listed in Chicago for the 1930 and 1940 US Census.
New York Times, 12/30/1919; US Census 1910; photo source: Hutchinson (KS) News, 3/22/1920. |
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