David Crockett

David Crockett (1786 – 1836) American frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He was raised in Tennessee, where he later served as a representative in the House of Representatives and as a state legislator.

He argued that it was wrong to drive Native Americans out and was one of the few to vote against Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1831. After losing his seat, he relocated to Texas. He enlisted in the Texas militia in 1836 and engaged the Mexican Army in battle.

Despite Crockett's passing during the Alamo siege, the Texas Revolution finally resulted in Texas's separation from Mexico and annexation by the US. David Crocket chronicled his life and his experiences on the American frontier in his autobiography.

Crockett's death at the Battle of the Alamo enhanced his heroism and secured his legendary position.

In 1954, Walt Disney produced Davy Crockett, a television series based on Crockett's biography, starring Fess Parker as Crockett. The series popularized the tune "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by George Bruns and Thomas W. Blackburn, as well as the picture of a patriotic Crockett brandishing a long rifle while dressed in frontier garb and a coonskin cap.

Crockett's likeness and escapades were immortalized in plays, novels, comic books, and films throughout the twentieth century and beyond, including the 1960 film The Alamo, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett.

Davy Crockett National Forest in Texas, David Crockett State Park in Tennessee, and the Davy Crockett Nuke, a nuclear weapons system developed by the United States Army during the Cold War, are all named after him.