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Mar 23, 1737 Thurso, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 31 Aug 1818 (aged 81)
American soldier and politician
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About Arthur St. Clair
- Arthur St.
- Clair (March 23, 1737 [O.S.
- 1736] – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician.
- Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania, where he held local office.
- During the American Revolutionary War, he rose to the rank of major general in the Continental Army, but lost his command after a controversial retreat from Fort Ticonderoga. After the war, he served as President of the Continental Congress, which during his term passed the Northwest Ordinance.
- He was then made governor of the Northwest Territory in 1788, and then the portion that would become Ohio in 1800.
- In 1791, St.
- Clair commanded the American forces in what was the United States's worst ever defeat by the American Indians.
- Politically out-of-step with the Jefferson administration, he was replaced as governor in 1802.
