Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

• By Victoria Gonzalez, Yenifer Claudio, and
  Jamieson Salgado

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Mirabeaus young/teen life and first jobs

• Mirabeau was born in Louisville,
  Georgia, on August 16, 1798. He was the son of
  John and Rebecca Lamar. When he was a young boy,
  he was an excellent horseman, and a accomplished
  fencer. In 1819, he had a brief partnership in a
  general store. In 1821 he was a joint publisher
  at the Cahawba Press for a few months.

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Mirabeaus later life

• Mirabeau Lamar married Tabitha Jordan on
  August 20,1829,and had a daughter named Rebecca
  Ann. Soon Tabitha got sick with tuberelosis.
  Because of Tabithas sickness, he and his
  daughter moved to Columbus, Georgia. When George
  M. Troup was elected governor, Lamar became his
  secretary and member of his household.

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Mirabeaus sad life later on

• In 1826, he resigned to nurse his bride
  who was still ill. He was elected to state
  senator. In 1829, it was time for a reelection.
  When Tabby died, he withdrew from the race.
  Another tragedy happened after that.
• In 1843 Rebecca Ann died. Mirabeau was
  soon plunged into melancholia, and sought relief
  in travel.

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During this time, he wrote 2
of his best known poems. Thou Idol of my soul,
and At Evening on the banks of Chattahoochee".
When he went to Texas, he was beginning to heal
and he deiced to settle in the Mexican Province.
Then he declared Independence for Texas and
helped build a fort at Velasc L
                                               
        
Mirabeau happy again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Alamo

• Then he went to Georgia to set his
  Affairs. When he hear the news of the Alamo, he
  hurried back to Texas. He joined the
  revolutionary army as a private. When the Mexican
  and the Texans forces faced each other on April
  20, 1836, Thomas J. Rusk and Walter Payne Lane
  were surrounded by the enemies. Lamars quick
  actions the next day saved their lives.

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Again The Alamo

• With those actions he got a salute from
  the Mexican lines. As the battle of San Jacinto
  was about to start, he was verbally commissioned
  to a colonel and assigned to command the cavalry.
  10 days after the battle, having become the
  sectary of war in David G. Burnets cabinet, he
  demanded that Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna be
  executed as a murder.

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A month later

• Lamar was now a major general and commander
  in chief of many Texas army, but the unruly Texas
  troops refused to except him, so he went to back
  to the civilian life.
• In September 1836, in the first national
  election, Lamar was elected vice president, an
  office in which he had to leisure to augment