John Wesley Powell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American geologist
Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1834
Place of Birth: Mount Morris, New York, United States
Date of Death: 23-Sep-1902
Profession: military personnel, geologist, geographer, botanist, explorer, linguist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John Wesley Powell
- John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S.
- soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.
- He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S.
- government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S.
- Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed, for development of the arid West, policies that were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions.
- He became the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution during his service as director of the U.S.
- Geological Survey, where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications.
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