Meriwether Lewis

 

This 2008 bust of Meriwether Lewis by John A. Lanzalotti, M.D. stands in the Hall of Delegates in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, VA.

Meriwether Lewis

1774-1809

Private secretary ot President Thomas Jefferson

Co-leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition

Governor of the Louisiana Territory

Presented by

Family and Friends Across America

The Locust Hill Graveyard Heritage FNDN

Home Front Chapter of the L&C Trial Heritage FNDN

John A. Lanzalotti, M.D., Sculptor, 2008

Charles Wilson Peale's 1807 portrait of Meriwether Lewis hangs in Independence Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

 

An engraving by A. W. Elson & Co. of  Peale's portrait formed the frontispiece of Hosmer's 1904 edition of Lewis and Clarks' 1814 book, History of the expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark