After his discharge in as a fourth sergeant Crockett arrived home and found himself again a father. Polly died the summer after Margaret's birth, although she had been in good health when David returned.
Before summer's end he married Elizabeth Patton, a widow with two children George and Margaret Ann , and he explored Alabama in the fall with an eye towards settlement. He nearly died from malaria-was reported dead-and astonished his family with his "resurrection. They settled at the head of Shoal Creek, and David continued his political and military career. He became a justice of the peace on November 17, , a post he resigned in He became the town commissioner of Lawrenceburg before April 1, , and was elected colonel of the Fifty-seventh Militia regiment in the county that same year.
New Year's Day marked a turning point in Crockett's career. He resigned as commissioner to run for a seat in the Tennessee legislature as the representative of Lawrence and Hickman counties. He won the August election and, from the beginning, took an active interest in public land policy regarding the West. After the session concluded he moved his family to what is now Gibson County in West Tennessee. He was reelected in , defeating Dr.
William E. Butler, but was in turn defeated in August in his first bid for a seat in Congress. In , after returning to private business, Crockett nearly died when his boats carrying barrel staves were wrecked in the Mississippi River. When he was brought to Memphis he was encouraged to run again for Congress by Maj.
Winchester and won election over Gen. William Arnold and Col. He was reelected to a second term in and split with President Andrew Jackson and the Tennessee delegation on several issues, including land reform and the Indian removal bill. In his campaign for a third term, Crockett openly and vehemently attacked Jackson's policies and was defeated in a close election by William Fitzgerald.
By this time Crockett's reputation as a sharpshooter, hunter, and yarn-spinner had brought him into national prominence. Much of the same material spilled over into the first few issues of a series of comic almanacs published under Crockett's name from to that, as a whole, constituted a body of outrageous tall tales about the adventures of the legendary Davy rather than the historical David Crockett.
When Crockett's enlistment period for the Creek Indian War was up, he re-enlisted, this time as a third sergeant under Captain John Cowan.
Crockett was discharged as a fourth sergeant in and went home to his family in Tennessee. After returning home, Crockett became a member of the Tennessee State House of Representatives from to In , he ran for the 19th U. Congress but lost. Running as a supporter of Andrew Jackson in , Crockett earned a seat in the U. House of Representatives. In March , he changed his political stance to anti-Jacksonian and was re-elected to the 21st Congress, though he failed to earn a seat in the 22nd Congress.
He was, however, elected to the 23rd Congress in Crockett's stint in Congress concluded in , after his run for re-election to the 24th Congress ended in defeat. During his political career, Crockett developed a reputation as a frontiersman that, while at times exaggerated, elevated him to folk legend status. While Crockett was indeed a skilled woodsman, his fame as a Herculean, rebellious, sharpshooting, tale-spinning and larger-than-life woodsman was at least partially a product of his efforts to package himself and win votes during his political campaigns.
The strategy proved largely effective; his renown helped him defeat the incumbent candidate in his bid for reelection to Congress. After Crockett lost the congressional election, he grew disillusioned with politics and decided to join the fight in the Texas Revolution.
Yet questions over the memoir, which was first published in , have risen over the years, with some scholars disagreeing over the veracity of the account of Crockett's death. Nineteenth-century drama and twentieth-century film always presented a heroic, kind Crockett. Courageous, dashing, and true blue, this nobleman of nature protected his country and all who were helpless with equal fervor.
The Walt Disney-Fess Parker-inspired Crockett craze of the mids was without question the high water mark of the impact of the legendary Crockett. A media-generated event, it occurred at the moment when television first began to reach a mass market, and Disney launched his enterprise with the innovative premise that children represented a renewable audience. And Disney was right about the recyclable nature of his market; today children meet Crockett on the Disney Channel on cable television.
Neither should the Gordian tangle of man and myth obscure the essential unity of Crockett. Crockett, David and Davy, was frontiersman, congressman, blazing patriot, boisterous braggart, and backwoods trickster, with all the roles dissolved by a puckish good humor and recast into a single, fun-loving presence.
The Crockett of history and culture is large and mirrors the ever-changing self-image of the United States. Invested in him—both as man and myth—are the hopes and beliefs, the virtues and values, and the shortcomings and triumphs of each generation of Americans who take him up as one of their heroes.
Lofaro, ed. David Crockett wrote an autobiography so he could tell people about his life. Try writing your own autobiography. What things have happened to you that you thought were exciting or fun? What would other people like to know about you? Home Stories Junior Curators. Legend - NOUN an old story that is widely known, but cannot be proven as true. Militia - NOUN an army or group of fighters who are not soldiers, usually citizens.
Campaign - NOUN a series of events to try and convince people to vote for you. Spokesman - NOUN a person who speaks for or represents someone or something.
Autobiography - NOUN a book where someone writes about their own life. What year was David Crockett born? Who did Crockett fight for while in the government? Was he for or against the Indian Removal Act? Why do you think Crockett decided to fight at the Alamo? Why do you think people consider David Crockett a legend?
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