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- NAME: Davy Crockett
- OCCUPATION: Folk Hero, U.S. Representative
- BIRTH DATE: August 17, 1786
- DEATH DATE: March 06, 1836
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Greene County, Tennessee
- PLACE OF DEATH: San Antonio, Texas
- Full Name: David Crockett
- AKA: Davy Crockett
- Nickname: King of the Wild Frontier
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Davy Crockett was a frontiersman, legendary folk hero and three-time Congressman. He fought in the War of 1812 and died at the Alamo in the Texas Revolution.
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The strategy proved largely effective; his fame helped him defeat the incumbent candidate in his 1833 bid for re-election to Congress.
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Death at the Alamo
After Crockett lost the 1835 congressional election, he grew disillusioned with politics and decided to join the fight in the Texas War of Independence. On March 6, 1836, he was killed at the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. While the exact cause of his Crockett's death is unknown, Peña, a lieutenant on the scene, stated that Crockett and his comrades at arms died "without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers."
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