Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark. Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, establish trade with, and sovereignty over the natives near the Missouri River, and claim the Pacific Northwest and Oregon Country for the United States before European nations. They also collected scientific data, and information on indigenous nations. President Thomas Jefferson appointed him Governor of Upper Louisiana in 1806. He died of gunshot wounds in what was either a murder or suicide, in 1809.
Meriwether Lewis
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- Born:
- Nov. 9, 1774
- Died:
- Nov. 9, 1809
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Books by Meriwether Lewis
![Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, Anna Quindlen, Sojourner Truth, Anonymous, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jack London, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Tom Wolfe, Simon J. Ortiz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joni Mitchell, Patrick Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, N. Scott Momaday, William Carlos Williams, Richard Lederer, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Willa Cather, Julia Alvarez, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley Powell, Joy Harjo, Bailey White, Adrienne Rich, Tim O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Bret Harte, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Crane, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Herman Melville, Joel, Billy., Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, Arthur Miller, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Larry McMurtry, Amy K. Duer, John F. Kennedy, Christopher Columbus, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, Darryl Babe Wilson, John Smith, Edward Taylor, Steve Wulf, Phillis Wheatley, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, William Faulkner, Robert Hayden, Stephen Foster, George Cooper, Robert E. Lee, Goss, Warren Lee, McKim, Randolph H., Stonewall Jackson, William Bradford, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Molly Moore, Miriam Davis Colt, Anne Bradstreet, James Cloyd Bowman, Phillis Wheatley, Ricardo Sanchez, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, William Cullen Bryant, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Margaret Fuller, Chief Joseph, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Flannery Oconnor, Diana Chang, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Garret Hongo, E. L. Doctorow, Colleen McElroy, Ian Frazier, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Anne Tyler, Edith Wharton, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Espada, Sylvia Plath, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Jonathan Edwards, Amy Tan, Carson McCullers, Meriwether Lewis, Robert Lowell, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 1999, Prentice Hall)](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/covers/f5751396-7eba-4a19-9804-40dd7fe3cea9.jpeg)
Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
by Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, and 136 others