James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, the last of the so-called “Virginia Dynasty”. His presidency is closely associated with the “Era of Good feelings”, and the collapse of the Federalist party, the traditional opponents of the Jeffersonians, allowed Monroe to downplay partisanship in the name of unity. Harlow Giles Unger argues that Monroe was the true heir to Washington, and the last of a generation in his biography “The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and A Nation’s call to Greatness”.