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CROCKETT, DAVID (1786–1836)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 477 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROCKETT, See also:DAVID (1786–1836) , See also:American frontiersman, was See also:born in See also:Greene See also:county, See also:Tennessee, on the 17th of See also:August 1786. His See also:education was obtained chiefly in the rough school of experience in the Tennessee backwoods, where he acquired a wide reputation as a See also:hunter, trapper and marksman. In 1813–1814 he served in the See also:Creek See also:War under See also:Andrew See also:Jackson, and subsequently became a See also:colonel in the Tennessee See also:militia. In 1821–1824 he was a member of the See also:state legislature, having won his See also:election not by See also:political speeches but by telling stories. In 1827 he was elected to the See also:national See also:House of Representatives as a Jackson Democrat, and was re-elected in 1829. At See also:Washington his shrewdness, See also:eccentric See also:manners and See also:peculiar wit made him a conspicuous figure, but he was too See also:independent to be a sup-See also:porter of all Jackson's See also:measures, and his opposition to the See also:president's See also:Indian policy led to See also:administration influences being turned against him with the result that he was defeated for re-election in 1831. He was again elected in 1833, but in 1835 lost his seat a second See also:time, being then a vigorous opponent of many distinctively Jacksonian measures. Discouraged and disgusted, he See also:left his native state, and emigrated to See also:Texas, then engaged in its struggle for See also:independence. There he lost his See also:life as one of the defenders of the Alamo at See also:San See also:Antonio on the 6th of See also:March 1836. A so-called " autobiography," which he very probably dictated or at least authorized, was published in See also:Philadelphia in 1834; a See also:work purporting to be a continuation of this autobiography and entitled Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (Philadelphia, 1836) is undoubtedly See also:spurious. These two See also:works were subsequently combined in a single See also:volume, of which there have been several See also:editions. Numerous popular See also:biographies have been written, the best by E.

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Ellis (Philadelphia, 1884).

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