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Sam Houston

president of Republic of Texas
Also known as: Black Raven, Samuel Houston
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Sam Houston (born March 2, 1793, Rockbridge county, Virginia, U.S.—died July 26, 1863, Huntsville, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician, a leader in the Texas Revolution (1834–36) who later served as president of the Republic of Texas (1836–38; 1841–44) and who was instrumental in Texas’s becoming a U.S. state (1845). In his youth Houston moved with his family to a farm in rural Tennessee after the death of his father in 1807. He ran...

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