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- 1786-1836. US folk hero, born in Tennessee,
- he became a Democratic Congressman 1827-31
- and 1833-35. A series of books, of which he
- may have been part-author, made him into a
- mythical hero of the
- frontier, but their Whig associations cost
- him his office. He clashed with Andrew
- Jackson, claiming Jackson had betrayed his
- frontier constituency. In bitterness, he left
- for Texas and died in the battle of the Alamo
- during the war for Texan independence. (See
- Mexican War).
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