16 U.S.C. § 450jj — Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; authorization

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This law lets the Secretary of the Interior build a national memorial in Saint Louis, Missouri. It honors the people who helped the United States expand westward. That includes Thomas Jefferson, Livingston, Monroe, Lewis, Clark, and pioneers who took part.

This section authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct a national memorial at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site in Saint Louis, Missouri. The memorial honors the people who made the United States' territorial expansion possible. It names President Thomas Jefferson; his aides Livingston and Monroe, who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase; the explorers Lewis and Clark; and the hunters, trappers, frontiersmen, pioneers, and others who contributed to that expansion.

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There is authorized to be constructed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site,1 Saint Louis, Missouri, an appropriate national memorial to those persons who made possible the territorial expansion of the United States, including President Thomas Jefferson and his aides, Livingston and Monroe, who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, the great explorers, Lewis and Clark, and the hardy hunters, trappers, frontiersmen, pioneers, and others who contributed to such expansion.

Source credit: (May 17, 1954, ch. 204, § 1, 68 Stat. 98.)

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1954Enacted · Act of May 17, 1954, ch. 204 · 68 Stat. 98

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