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William Clark

1770 - 1838

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William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri. Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806 across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, the first major effort to explore and map much of what is now the Western United States and to assert American claims to the Pacific Northwest. Before the expedition, he served in a militia and the United States Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Clark is the 49th most popular explorer (up from 323rd in 2019), the 632nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,788th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, William Clark ranks 49 out of 498. Before him are Ingólfr Arnarson, Ernest Shackleton, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, and Martin Behaim. After him are Samuel de Champlain, Diego de Almagro, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Sven Hedin, Henry Morton Stanley, and William Baffin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, William Clark ranks 8. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Louis-Nicolas Davout, and William Wordsworth. After him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet, François Gérard, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Anton Reicha, and Theodoros Kolokotronis. Among people deceased in 1838, William Clark ranks 2. Before him is Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. After him are Adelbert von Chamisso, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Clark ranks 632 out of 20,380. Before him are Steven Tyler (1948), Paul Walker (1973), Ed Gein (1906), Linda B. Buck (1947), Sydney Pollack (1934), and Larry Ellison (1944). After him are Robert A. Dahl (1915), Peter Fonda (1940), Glen Campbell (1936), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Donald Trump Jr. (1977), and Kurt Russell (1951).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, William Clark ranks 2. Before him are Daniel Boone (1734). After him are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Davy Crockett (1786), Sacagawea (1780), Calamity Jane (1852), Hugh Glass (1783), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Chris McCandless (1968), Frederick Cook (1865), George W. De Long (1844), and Simon Fraser (1776).

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