Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
- born on August 8, 1774 near Charlottesville, Virginia
- 5 years in Latin school
- study of botany at mother's farm
- captain in the army, served in numbers of campaigns against Native Americans, - quelling of the Whiskey Rebellion
- 1801 private secretary and friend of President Thomas Jefferson
- 1804-1806 captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 1807 governor of Louisiana Territory with headquarters at St. Louis
- on October 11,1809 unexpected death in an inn on the Natchez Trace while traveling to Washington in order to prepare journals for publishing. Not clear whether it was murder or suicide
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