sentences:  Then in 1843 when the provisional government was formed he was again elected as the recorder, the forerunner to the office of Secretary of State.He was still the government recorder when he was killed by a Native American named Cockstock on March 4, 1844.Cockstock had stabbed and shot LeBreton along with another before being killed himself by Winslow Armstrong, but the incident lead to the creation of the Oregon Rangers as a militia.