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Born near Charlottesville, Virginia, August 18, 1774.
Entered U.S. Regular Army in 1795. In 1801 - 1803 private secretary
to President Thomas Jefferson.
Commissioned by the President as Commander
of the Expedition with Captain Wm. Clark as his assistant. After
return from Expedition, he was made Governor of Louisiana Territory.
Lewis County, Missouri, named in his honor.
Lewis died October 11, 1809, in Nashville,
Tennessee, at the home of a settler, and it is not known whether
he took his own life or was killed.
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