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Who was the first person to discover the mississippi river?

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Hernando de Soto

On May 8, 1541, south of present-day Memphis, Tennessee, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, one of the first European explorers to ever do so.

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It was a Spanish conquistador named Hernando De Soto
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