The war hero Davy Crockett died at the age of 49. Here is all you want to know and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Tennessee woodsman known as the “King of the Wild Frontier” who was elected to Congress and died while fighting at the Alamo.
He dropped out of school because of a bully, and ran away from home for fear of punishment from his father.
He has been called the King of the Wild Frontier.
Quotes
""If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
""The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
""I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent."
""I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized."
""Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."