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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Clark has received more than 1,514,752 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. William Clark is the 263rd most popular explorer (up from 267th in 2019), the 3,889th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,802nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, William Clark ranks 263 out of 405. Before him are Paweł Strzelecki, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ippolito Rosellini, Ludwig Leichhardt, and Willem de Vlamingh. After him are Nikolai Spathari, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Aleksei Chirikov, Richard Chancellor, Juan Fernández, and Grigory Shelikhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, William Clark ranks 32. Before him are François Étienne de Kellermann, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Alexandre Brongniart, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, and Étienne Pivert de Senancour. After him are Lucia Migliaccio, William Nicol, William Huskisson, Zaman Shah Durrani, Albrecht Berblinger, and James Hogg. Among people deceased in 1838, William Clark ranks 21. Before him are Charles Percier, René Caillié, Black Hawk, Heinrich Marx, José Bonifácio de Andrada, and Joseph Lancaster. After him are Osceola, Ferenc Kölcsey, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Piet Retief, Maximilian von Montgelas, and Jędrzej Śniadecki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Clark ranks 3,889 out of 18,182. Before him are Cotton Mather (1663), Jesse Eisenberg (1983), Robert G. Ingersoll (1833), Milton Glaser (1929), Marlee Matlin (1965), and David Arquette (1971). After him are Victoria Nuland (1961), Douglas Preston (1956), Robert Indiana (1928), Victoria Woodhull (1838), Brock Lesnar (1977), and Catherine Keener (1959).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, William Clark ranks 17. Before him are Jimmie Angel (1899), George W. De Long (1844), Daniel Boone (1734), Jedediah Smith (1799), Chris McCandless (1968), and Roy Chapman Andrews (1884). After him are Edward S. Curtis (1868), Meriwether Lewis (1774), John C. Frémont (1813), Charles Wilkes (1798), Charles Francis Hall (1821), and Nathaniel Palmer (1799).

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