Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (born 1810)

Joseph Meek

American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician(1810–1875)

Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the fur trade before settling in the Tualatin Valley, Meek played a prominent role…