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Davy Crockett Biography
(1786-1836)
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Summary
CROCKETT, David, (father of John Wesley Crockett), a Representative
from Tennessee; born at the confluence of Limestone Creek and Nolichuckey River in the State of Franklin, present day Greene County, Tennessee, August 17, 1786; attended the common schools; served in Creek campaign, 1813-1814;
member of the Tennessee state house of representatives, 1821-1823; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Nineteenth Congress
in 1825; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congress; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March
4, 1827-March 3, 1831); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-second Congress in 1830; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian
to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress
in 1834; fought at the Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Tex., 1836; died about March 6, 1836.
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(Bibliography and related reading below.)
Bibliography: Crockett, David. A Narrative of the Life of
David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Edited by James A. Shackford and Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: The University
of Tennessee Press, 1973; Shackford, James Atkins. David Crockett: The Man and The Legend. Edited by John B. Shackford;
Introduction by Michael A. Lofaro. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
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