#i'm going to make a powerpoint this man is FACINATING to me
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I was planning on answering a bunch of asks and writing up that au I was talking about into an official post but I got distracted and, long story short, it's been four hours and I now have an 11-page Google Doc about the 7th Governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston (6th, depending on who you ask)
#he was also the first president of texas but that's not the reason i started researching him so that's not important really#he was only commander-in-chief during the battle of the alamo and governor during the civil war but who cares about that#he was governor of tennessee for approximately 1 year before his wife of three months left him#and he was so embarrassed he left office and moved in with a cherokee clan in arkasas#which is the second time in his life that he ran away from home to live with the cherokee#and then eight years later he became the first president of texas#did i mention it took eight years and becoming president of texas for him to convince his wife to officially divorce him?#and during that time he got remarried and divorced again?#actually i don't think she ever actually agreed he had to use his power as president to get a district court judge to do it for him#i'm going to make a powerpoint this man is FACINATING to me#he was actually made an official cherokee citizen and considered them his family which is really cool#this isn't for a class#i just fell into a rabbit hole#also in case anyone is wondering i am not from texas so i had never heard of this man until i was looking at a list of tennessee governers#and wondered why there was a gap during 1828#saframbles#history#sam houston#governer sam houston#president sam houston#i wonder if anyone is searching through the sam houston tag on tumblr.com#if you are please tell me why you're equally as fascinating to me as sam houston#texas history#tennessee history#i don't know what the frick to tag this so i'm just gonna stop now
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