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Upon their return to Washington, Clark was appointed general of the militia in the Louisiana Territory, as well as the agent for Indian affairs. He led several campaigns during the War of 1812, and when the Missouri Territory was established in 1813, President James Madison made him its governor, a post that he maintained until Missouri was made a state in 1820. Afterwards, he was appointed Superintendant of Indian Affairs, and while he tried to maintain peaceful relations with the native peoples, he was involved in President Andrew Jackson’s infamous Indian Removal Policy.
Clark married Julia Hancock in 1808, and after her death in 1820, he married her first cousin, Harriet Radford. Harriet passed away in 1831, only a few years before Clark’s own death. He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, where a 35-foot obelisk marks his grave.
Born. | |
Moved to Kentucky. | |
Served during the Northwest Indian War. | |
Became a captain in the Indiana militia. | |
Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. | |
Appointed general of the militia in the Louisiana Territory. | |
Married Julia Hancock. | |
Served during the War of 1812. | |
Served as governor of the Missouri Territory. | |
Death of Julia. | |
Married Harriet Radford. | |
Death of Harriet. | |
Died. |
Long Journey in | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston |
Captain Clark's Burning Glass in | Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston |
Lewis and Clark in | America First—100 Stories from Our History by Lawton B. Evans |
Lewis and Clark—I in | Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell |
Jefferson—How the Door Was Opened in | This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall |
Bird Woman Meets Lewis in | Bird Woman —Guide of Lewis and Clark by James Willard Schultz |
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![]() William Clark in Opening the West with Lewis and Clark |
With William Clark, followed the Missouri river to its source, crossed the Rockies and followed the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. | |
Chief of a Piute tribe. First befriended the white settlers, but rebelled when his tribe was mistreated. | |
Thomas Jefferson | Third President. Author of the Declaration of Independence. Founder of Democrat-Republican Party. |
Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark during their explorations of the Louisiana Purchase. | |
Revolutionary war hero who fought both British and Indians in the Ohio Valley. |