Davy Crockett

American frontiersman and politician who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1827-1831, 1833-1835) and opposed Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. He was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 and became a folk hero as the 'King of the Wild Frontier'.

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Biography

David Crockett was born in 1786 in what is now East Tennessee and grew up on the frontier, where he became known as a hunter and storyteller. He served with the Tennessee militia in the Creek War of 1813-1814, and after moving to Lawrence County he became a county commissioner, a justice of the peace and, in 1818, a lieutenant colonel of the local militia regiment.

Crockett won a seat in the Tennessee General Assembly in 1821 and again in 1823, where he concentrated on protecting poor settlers' land titles. After a failed first attempt he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1827 and re-elected in 1829. He broke with Andrew Jackson, opposing his land policies and casting the only Tennessee vote against the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and lost his seat in 1831. He returned to Congress as an anti-Jackson member in 1833, published an autobiography in 1834 and joined the Whigs.

After losing re-election in 1835, Crockett left for Texas. He joined the Texian forces during the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Alamo on 6 March 1836; whether he died in the fighting or was executed after capture remains uncertain. Stage plays, almanacs and later films and television turned him into one of the best-known American folk heroes.