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Lamar's Birth
Mirabeau Bonuaparte Lamar was born to a wealthy farmer near Louisville, Georgia. -
Lamar becomes secertary
He got a nice job as a secertary to the senator of Georgia. -
He becomes the Senator of Georgia
At 31 he was elected to the state senate. -
Wifes death
His wife Tabitha Jordan died of an awful disease commonly known as tuberculosis. He took that really took that hard and lost many of his next elections and was really looking down. -
New home and a new purpose
He fell in love Texas and decided to move there with his slave trading friend James Fannin. He later went back to settle some affairs. During the trip he heard of the 342 men massacre by Santa Anna and his freind James Fannin was amoung the bunch so he came back imediately to join the war. -
Vice President
He was elected vice president in the cabinet of David G burnett. -
President
Lamar was elected with ease because his rival Sam Houston was unable to be elected to a second term. He also had fast thinking in times of great hardships to let him lead among the best. -
New places
He was on a fast roll with little money by building new capital buildings in new places and kicking out the Cherokees out of any spot in Texas. -
Westward failure
He sent people out to western places to perswade the mexicans to let them stay with them so that we could get more land but they were captured and not released untill Sam Houston was president again. -
Minister
Through the years of 1857 to 59 he served as a minister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica. -
Death
He died on his wonderful plantation in Richmond, Texas and will go down in history as one of the dumb people in Texas and most important to Texas, not neccessarily a good person.