Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Political content

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Hey Uncle Ken: I took the quiz too. Mine came out Hedley Lamar. Coincidence? I 
think not!

Yer 'Blazing Buddy,' Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Rentiers rentiers [at] mac.com
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Political content




n Jan 3, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Tom Reynolds wrote:
> Found a link that can tell you, based on your responses to a series  
 of 20 questions (no, not Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?), which of  
 the 2008 Presidential candidates you come closest to (or which of  
 them come closest to YOU) in your overall social and economic views.

ey Tom, I took the quiz...mine came out Mirabeau B Lamar!
LAMAR, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE (1798-1859). Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, son  
f John and Rebecca (Lamar) Lamar, president of the Republic of  
exas,qv was born near Louisville, Georgia, on August 16, 1798. He  
rew up at Fairfield, his father's plantation near Milledgeville. He  
ttended academies at Milledgeville and Eatonton and was an omnivorous  
eader. As a boy he became an expert horseman and an accomplished  
encer, began writing verse, and painted in oils. In 1819 he had a  
rief partnership in a general store at Cahawba, Alabama; in 1821 he  
as joint publisher of the Cahawba Press for a few months. When George  
. Troup was elected governor of Georgia in 1823, Lamar returned to  
eorgia to become Troup's secretary and a member of his household. He  
arried Tabitha Jordan of Twiggs County, Georgia, on January 1, 1826,  
nd soon resigned his secretaryship to nurse his bride, who was ill  
ith tuberculosis. In 1828 he moved his wife and daughter, Rebecca  
nn, to the new town of Columbus, Georgia, and established the  
olumbus Enquirer as an organ for the Troup political faction. Lamar  
as elected state senator in 1829 and was a candidate for reelection  
hen his wife died on August 20, 1830. He withdrew from the race and  
raveled until he was sufficiently recovered. During this time he  
omposed two of his best known poems, "At Evening on the Banks of the  
hattahoochee" and "Thou Idol of My Soul." He ran unsuccessfully for  
ongress in 1832, helped organize a new party, and was again defeated  
or Congress in 1834 on a nullification platform. He then sold his  
nterest in the Enquirer and in 1835 followed James W. Fannin, Jr.,qv  
o Texas to collect historical data. By the time he reached Texas,  
amar's health and spirits began to mend and he decided to settle in  
he Mexican province. Characteristically, he immediately declared for  
exas independence, helped build a fort at Velasco, contributed three  
oems to the Brazoria Texas Republican,qv and hurried back to Georgia  
o settle his affairs.
At the news of the battle of the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre,qqv  
amar rushed back to Velasco and inquired the way to the scene of  
attle. He joined the revolutionary armyqv at Groce's Point as a  
rivate. When the Mexican and Texan forces faced each other at San  
acinto on April 20, 1836, Thomas J. Rusk and Walter Paye Laneqqv were  
urrounded by the enemy. Lamar's quick action the next day saved their  
ives and brought him a salute from the Mexican lines. As the battle  
f San Jacintoqv was about to start, he was verbally commissioned a  
olonel and assigned to command the cavalry. Ten days after the  
attle, having become secretary of war in David G. Burnet'sqv cabinet,  
e demanded that Antonio LÃpez de Santa Annaqvbe executed as a  
urderer. A month later Lamar was major general and commander in chief  
f the Texas army, but the unruly Texas troops refused to accept him  
nd he retired to civilian life.
In September 1836, in the first national election, Lamar was elected  
ice president, an office in which he had leisure to augment his  
istorical collections and study Spanish. He spent most of the year  
837 in Georgia being feted as a hero and publicizing the new  
epublic. Upon his return to Texas, he organized the Philosophical  
ociety of Texasqv on December 5, 1837, and found that his campaign  
or the presidency of Texas was already under way, sponsored by  
pponents of President Sam Houston,qv who by law could not succeed  
imself. The other candidates, Peter W. Grayson and James  
ollinsworth,qqv both committed suicide before election day, thus  
ssuring Lamar's election by an almost unanimous vote. At his  
nauguration on December 10, 1838, Lamar declared the purposes of his  
dministration to be promoting the wealth, talent, and enterprises of  
he country and laying the foundations of higher institutions for  
oral and mental culture. His term began with Texas in a precarious  
ituation, however: only the United States had recognized her  
ndependence, she had no commercial treaties, Mexico was threatening  
econquest, the Indians were menacing, the treasury was empty, and  
urrency was depreciated. It was characteristic of Lamar to divert the  
houghts of his constituents from the harassments of the moment toward  
aying the foundations of a great empire. Opposed to annexation,qvhe  
hought Texas should remain a republic and ultimately expand to the  
acific Ocean. For Houston's conciliatory Indian policy, Lamar  
ubstituted one of sternness and force. The Cherokees were driven to  
rkansas in 1839; in 1840 a campaign against the Comanches quieted the  
estern Indians in the west at a cost of $2.5 million.
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