biography
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| lived:
| (1770–1838)
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| biography:
| US soldier and explorer, born in Caroline Co, Virginia, USA. The brother of George Rogers Clark, he entered the US Army (1789) and fought under General Anthony Wayne. In 1796 he resigned from the army and managed his family's estate. He shared command with Meriwether Lewis of the successful Lewis and Clark expedition (1804–6), producing fine maps and also illustrations of the animals of the territory. He was brigadier-general of militia and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Louisiana Territory (1807–13) and governor of the Missouri Territory (1813–20). He established Fort Shelby, the first US post in Wisconsin (1814), and negotiated treaties with various Indian tribes. In 1824–5 he was surveyor general for Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. |
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