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Rene Auguste Chouteau, Jr. , was an American trader and politician.

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He was a member of the wealthy Chouteau fur-trading family of St. Louis, Missouri. During his career, he was engaged in trading with the Osage tribe, was appointed a justice of the first territorial court, and held a number of public offices.

Background

René Auguste Chouteau, Jr. was born in September 1749 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, the son of René Auguste and Marie Thérèse (Bourgeois) Chouteau. He was baptized on September 7, 1749, and was probably born on the same day or at most a day or two earlier.

Soon after his birth, the mother, alleging gross cruelty on the part of her husband, separated from him taking her infant with her. In 1757 she formed an unsanctioned but generally approved union with Laclede, by whom she had four children, all of whom, in observance of French law, bore the surname of the un