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Meriwether Lewis

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Born:
Aug. 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Va. [U.S.]
Died:
Oct. 11, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., U.S. (aged 35)
Title / Office:
governor (1808-1809), Louisiana
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Meriwether Lewis (born Aug. 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Va. [U.S.]—died Oct. 11, 1809, near Nashville, Tenn., U.S.) was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. Born to William Lewis and Lucy Meriwether, Meriwether Lewis grew up on Locust Hill, the family’s plantation in Ivy Creek, Va.—near Monticello, home of the future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. Lewis’s father died while serving in the Continental Army in 1779. His mother then married John Marks and relocated ...(100 of 890 words)

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