Show GENERA GENERALI i HOUSTON JOUSTON or op TEXAs the election of gen samuel houston as governor of texa of which lie he was the first president enC while it was vi as an independent nation suggests a retrospective glance at MIS his history his childhood and youth auth were spent in in the cheruk cherokee ee country ilis ilia first step in public life afif e was keeping a school in ill fennessee lenn essee essec next he was clerk and cou county ty auditor in 1813 he be enlisted u under rider uen gen jackson and served with th him in the creek war was as wounded and made a lieutenant next he studied law lav in nashville and was as t twice w ice elected to COM congress combess ress serving from 1823 to 1827 1897 7 ile he was then chosen governor governer of tennessee arid and after entering upon his hiis third year in in that office resigned returned to the chero charo kees in agliam a and applied himself zealously to loa a defence ot their rights and the assertion of their just claim upon the united states government ile he went to texas on a visit and vas elected a member of the constitutional convention which met for the purpose of preparing the state for admission into the alex mexican ican union santa anna rejected the constitution and gen houton houston took the lead in arousing the texans to arms he was elected commander in chief of the texan troops conducted the war vigorously and brought it to a successful termination at the battle of san jacinto ile he was the first president of texas then a member 0 of f the T texan exi an congress then president again upon the annexation of texas in 1841 1844 he was mas elected united S sates ates senator was twice reelected elected re and in march last made de hw his farewell address to that body front which he was about to retire voluntarily ile he now took the field as candidate for governor of tex texas as with yf h the like success which had attended all his previous enterprises |