Tobias Lear, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Secretary of the President of the United States
Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1762
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Death: 11-Oct-1816
Profession: diplomat
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Tobias Lear
- Tobias Lear (September 19, 1762 – October 11, 1816) 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 third President Thomas Jefferson's envoy to Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and as peace envoy in the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa during the First Barbary War (1801–1805) and the Second Barbary War (1815).
- He was responsible for negotiating a peace treaty with the Bey of Tripoli that ended the first Barbary War.
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