Monroe & Wilson

As I’ve mentioned on the page for the first issues of the stamps in this series, I like them very much – they’re so much better looking and more interesting than the Bland Definitives of the previous decade and a half. There are two stamps on this page that depicted two presidents that I’d like to highlight: James Monroe and Woodrow Wilson.

James Monroe

James Monrow was the fifth president of the U.S. Besides all of his work and contribution to the founding of the U.S. before becoming president, perhaps one of his most famous act with what was known as the Monroe Doctrine

It’s central tenant is that any intervention in the political affairs of the U.S., as well as the Americas in general, by foreign powers is considered a potential hostile act against the U.S. This position came into play many times over the two-hundred plus years that followed: various involvements of France, England, and other European countries medling in the affairs in Mexico and Canada; Theodore Roosevelt used it to justify U.S. actions in South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean; Kennedy invoked it when the Soviet Union tried to install troops and missles in Cuba. The result of the Monroe Doctrine from the U.S. perspective is that it has led to maintaining stability in the U.S. and surrounding regions.

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth president. He was president during World War I. After the war and a a result, Wilson was lead person to create the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations. Because of his leadership the first world war ended quickly after the U.S. entered the war. Also, because of his vision for the League of Nations, resulting eventually in the U.N. great things have been achieved throughout the world among nations – including peace, stability, and world health.

Note

These stamps are the same as the previous two pages, but with different perforation. I have almost all of these unused – one used. The ones I’m missing, you’ll notice that Leuchtturm included in the empty spots arrows and color notations. What that basically means is that the stamp that goes there is the same as the stamp to which it’s pointing, but with color differences.

For one of those empty spots on this page, I think one is a duplicate. If you look on the previous page, on the fourth row, the second stamp is a blue-green stamp of President Benjamin Harrison (catalog number 622). On this page, the fourth row, the third stamp is the same stamp, but yellow-green (694). Notice in the space next to it here that Leuchtturm says that space is for the same stamp in blue-green. Looking at the catalogs, there was only two issues of this Benjamin Harrison stamp. I made an entry in my database for the empty spot with catalog number 694A, but I made up that catalog number. I’m thinking now that they meant for 622 to go on this page and mistakenly included 622 on the previous page. I’m not sure what to do about that. I might get another 622 stamp to fill in the spot here, and change the catalog number for that spot in my database.

Contains 30 spots: own 27 – 26 unused, 1 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 21, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	653	Nathan Hale	½c (may 1929) definitive, olive brown
1.2	✓	632	Benjamin Franklin	1c (jun 1927) definitive, green
1.3	✓	633	Warren Harding	1½c (may 1927) definitive, yellow brown
1.4	✓	684	Warren Harding	1½c (dec 1930) definitive, brown
1.5	✓	634	George Washington	2c (dec 1926) definitive, carmine
1.6		634b	George Washington	2c (dec 1926) definitive, carmine lake
2.1	✗	634A	George Washington Type II	2c (dec 1928) definitive, carmine
2.2	✓	635	Abraham Lincoln	3c (feb 1927) definitive, violet
2.3	✓	635a	Abraham Lincoln	3c (feb 1934) definitive, light violet
2.4	✓	636	Martha Washington	4c (may 1927) definitive, yellow brown
2.5	✓	685	William Taft	4c (jun 1930) definitive, brown
2.6	✓	637	Theodore Roosevelt	5c (mar 1927) definitive, dark blue
3.1	✓	638	James Garfield	6c (jul 1927) definitive, red orange
3.2	✓	639	William McKinley	7c (mar 1927) definitive, black
3.3	✓	640	Ulysses Grant	8c (jun 1927) definitive, olive
3.4	✓	641	Thomas Jefferson	9c (may 1927) definitive, pink
3.5		641a	Thomas Jefferson	9c (may 1927) definitive, orange red
3.6	✓	642	James Monroe	10c (feb 1927) definitive, orange
4.1	✓	692	Rutherford Hayes	11c (sep 1931) definitive, light blue
4.2	✓	693	Grover Cleveland	12c (aug 1931) definitive, brown violet
4.3	✓	694	Benjamin Harrison	13c (sep 1931) definitive, yellow green
4.4		694a	Benjamin Harrison	13c (jan 1926) definitive, blue green
4.5	✓	695	American Indian	14c (sep 1931) definitive, dark blue
4.6	✓	696	Statue of Liberty	15c (aug 1931) definitive, grey
5.1	✓	697	Woodrow Wilson	17c (jul 1931) definitive, black
5.2	✓	698	Golden Gate	20c (sep 1931) definitive, carmine rose
5.3	✓	699	Niagara Falls	25c (jul 1931) definitive, blue green
5.4	✓	700	American Bison	30c (sep 1931) definitive, brown
5.5	✓	701	Arlington Amphitheater	50c (sep 1931) definitive, lilac
6.1	✓	720	George Washington Gilbert Stuart	3c (jun 1932) definitive, deep violet

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.