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                            Introduction
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Lee Meriwether (December 25, 1862 - March 12, 1966) was an American
author, government official and centenarian.

Born on Christmas Day in Columbus, Mississippi, he studied in the
Memphis public school system. Afterwards he took a trip to Europe and,
upon his return, was asked by the United States Secretary of the
Interior to write a report on labor condition on that continent, which
was published in the 1886 annual report of the US Bureau of Labor's
annual report. From 1886-1889 he was employed by the Department of the
Interior as a special agent investigating labor conditions in the US
and the Kingdom of Hawaii. In 1889 he moved to Missouri where he
became a labor commissioner, while reading law at his father's law
office in St. Louis. He was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association
in 1892 he practiced law in St. Louis for nearly seventy years. He
also wrote numerous travelogues and autobiographies. During World War
I he was appointed Special Assistant to the American ambassador to
France.


                               Awards
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*Croce di Cavaliere Ufficiale by the Crown of Italy 1938


                               Works
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*'[https://archive.org/details/tramptriphowtose00meri A tramp trip;
how to see Europe on fifty cents a day]' New York, Harper & Bros.
1886
*'[https://archive.org/details/athometramp00meririch The tramp at
home]' New York, Harper & Bros 1889
*'[https://archive.org/details/dudeman5685_yahoo_JD Address [on]
Jefferson Davis]' Birmingham, Ala. : [s.n.], 1908
*'Seeing Europe by Automobile', 1911
*'Carrying civilization to Ethiopia: benefits the whole world as well
as Italy and Ethiopia' [Address given to the Italian Club of St.
Louis, May 7, 1938. St Louis, MO: A. Boggiano, 1938.
*'America at the fork of the road: an address to the St. Louis Rotary
Club May 17, 1951' [St. Louis, MO  Jeffersonians,  1951
*'Lee Meriwether again addresses Rotary Club.' [St. Louis, Mo.? :
s.n., 1952
*'I knew Jefferson Davis in 1867, and was his house guest at Beauvoir
in 1887' [St. Louis, Mo. : L. Meriwether, 1958
*'Let us preserve the purity of the white race and keep the records of
history straight: an address' [St. Louis, Mo. : L. Meriwether, 1958
*'Why did the South secede in 1860?' [St. Louis, Mo. : The Author?,
1964


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