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          Meriwether Lewis

          Portrait by Charles Wilson Peale

          2nd Governor of the Louisiana Territory
          In office
          March 3, 1807 – October 11, 1809
          Appointed byThomas Jefferson
          Preceded byJames Wilkinson
          Succeeded byBenjamin Howard
          Commander of the Corps of Discovery
          In office
          1803–1806
          PresidentThomas Jefferson
          Preceded byCorps commissioned
          Succeeded byCorps disbanded
          Private Secretary to the President
          In office
          1801–1803
          PresidentThomas Jefferson
          Preceded byWilliam Smith Shaw
          Succeeded byLewis Harvie
          Personal details
          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
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