Tobias Lear
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1762 – 1816
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Who was Tobias Lear?
Tobias Lear is best known as the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799. Through Lear's journal, we receive the account of Washington's final moments and his last words: 'Tis well.
Tobias Lear also served as President Thomas Jefferson's envoy to Saint-Domingue, and as peace envoy in the Mediterranean during the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. He was responsible for negotiating a peace that ended the first Barbary War.
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- Born
- Sep 19, 1762
Portsmouth - Also known as
- Tobias Lear V
- Parents
- Education
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Portsmouth
- Died
- Oct 11, 1816
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on July 23, 2013
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