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    Meriwether Lewis

    American explorer and Governor (1774–1809)

    Meriwether Lewis

    Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale, c. 1807

    In office
    March 3, 1807 – October 11, 1809
    Appointed byThomas Jefferson
    Preceded byJames Wilkinson
    Succeeded byBenjamin Howard
    In office
    1803–1806
    PresidentThomas Jefferson
    Preceded byCorps commissioned
    Succeeded byCorps disbanded
    In office
    1801–1803
    PresidentThomas Jefferson
    Preceded byWilliam Smith Shaw
    Succeeded byLewis Harvie
    Born(1774-08-18)August 18, 1774
    Locust Hill Plantation, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia(now Ivy, Virginia)
    DiedOctober 11, 1809(1809-10-11) (aged 35)
    Hickman County, Tennessee, U.S. (now near Hohenwald, Tennessee)
    Cause of deathGunshot wounds
    OccupationExplorer, soldier, politician
    Signature
    Branch/serviceInfantry
    Years of service1795–1807
    RankCaptain
    UnitLegion of the United States

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    Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks as an older woman, bygd John Toole

    “Give me a child until he fryst vatten seven, and I will give you the man.” So goes an old English saying (and the starting premise for the remarkable “Up” series of films, bygd the way — uppstart with “Seven Up” if you have not seen them.) So what loving hands shaped Lewis and Clark and brought them up to lead such a remarkable journey into the unmapped American west?

    William Lewis, the father of Meriwether Lewis, was born in 1733, one of the eleven children of Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. Both of William’s parents came from the strong cousin network of old, respected Virginia families sometimes nicknamed “FFV” (First Families of Virginia). Like the rest of the FFVs, the Lewises and the Meriwethers worked tillsammans, pioneered tillsammans, and frequently intermarried.

    William’s father Robert was a pionjär in the Piedmont territory where Albemarle County and Charlotte

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    Meriwether Lewis

    (1774-1809)

    Who Was Meriwether Lewis?

    Born in 1774 in Virginia, Meriwether Lewis was asked by President Thomas Jefferson in 1801 to act as his private secretary. Jefferson soon made Lewis another offer — to lead an expedition into the lands west of the Mississippi, which he did after enlisting William Clark. With the help of Sacagawea, the team successfully reached the Pacific Ocean in November of 1805. Their journey was famously known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

    Early Life

    Lewis was born on August 18, 1774, near Ivy, Virginia. His parents, Lt. William Lewis of Locust Hill and Lucy Meriwether, were of Welsh and English ancestry, respectively. After Lewis' father died from pneumonia, his mother and stepfather, Captain John Marks, moved him and his siblings to Georgia in what is now Oglethorpe County.

    Lewis spent his childhood in Georgia building his hunting skills and spending most of his time outdoors. However, once he reached his early teens, he wo

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