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Sam Houston
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American statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
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Sam Houston (1793–1863) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of Tennessee, Governor of Texas, and President of the Republic of Texas. Born in Lexington, Rockbridge County, he held citizenship in both the United States and the Republic of Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, Houston spoke English and was affiliated with the Baptist religion. He was married to Margaret Lea Houston and had children named Temple Lea Houston and Andrew Jackson Houston.
Houston worked in Washington, D.C., and is recognized in the Us Senators collection. His written works include "Speech of Mr. Houston, of Tennessee," "Speech on the Nebraska and Kansas bill, March 3,1854," and "The Battle of San Jacinto." He is also the subject of entries in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Houston died in Huntsville.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1793
- Died
- 1863
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Speech of Mr. Houston, of Tennessee
- Speech of Mr. Burges of Rhode Island in the case of Samuel Houston
- Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas
- Speech on the Nebraska and Kansas bill, March 3,1854
- The Battle of San Jacinto
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 148
- Total plays
- 965
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,696x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,560x
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Quotes
- “Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”
- “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
- “All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.”
- “Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ , HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. He also served as the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas. Houston is the only individual to be elected governor of two different US states.
Born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Houston and his family relocated to Maryville, Tennessee, while he was a teenager. Houston later ran away from home, spending about three years living with the Cherokee, becoming known as "Raven". He served under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812; afterwards, he was appointed as a sub-agent to oversee the removal of the Cherokee from Tennessee into Arkansas Territory in 1818. With the support of Jackson, among others, Houston won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1823. He strongly supported Jackson's presidential candidacies and, in 1827, Houston was elected as the governor of Tennessee. In 1829, after divorcing his first wife, Houston resigned from office, and moved to the Arkansas Territory to live with the Cherokee once more.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sam Houston” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.