Happy birthday to Colonel David Crockett, who was born on this day 229 years ago! Crockett began his political career in Lawrence County, where he was elected magistrate, colonel of the county’s militia regiment, and state representative.

This image of the King of the Wild Frontier by S.S. Osgood was personally endorsed by Crockett to be the most accurate one of him ever drawn from life. Source: Wikimedia Commons.