He served in President Thomas Jefferson's Administration.
John Quincy Adams was the very able Secretary of State for Monroe.
Virgina
Virginia
Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower was President of the United States.
James Monroe
James Monroe was President of all the U.S. states when Mississippi became a state on December 10, 1817.
James Madison was the President for whom Monroe served as Secretary of State. (He also served as Madison's Secretary of War for a year or so.)
John Quincy Adams was the very able Secretary of State for Monroe.
Robert Smith and James Monroe
Madison
James Monroe served as Secretary of State and as Secretary of War under Madison. For some of the time, he held both positions at once.