Sam Houston

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Samuel Houston ( , HEW-stən; March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution in which the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas and then one of the first two United States Senators from Texas after it was annexed as a U.S. state. Prior to this, he served as the sixth governor of Tennessee, and later, as the seventh governor of Texas, the only individual elected governor of two different U.S. states. Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia to a slave-owning family and owned slaves throughout his life. The family moved to Maryville, Tennessee, while he was a teenager. Houston ran away from home to live some three years in a Cherokee village, becoming known as "Raven". He served under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and was appointed as a sub-agent to oversee the removal of the Cherokee from Tennessee into Arkansas Territory...

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