Sam Houston, governor of Tennessee, plans to…
1828 CE
Sam Houston, governor of Tennessee, plans to stand for reelection in 1828 but resigns after marrying eighteen-year-old Eliza Allen.
The marriage, which had been forced by Allen's father, Colonel John Allen, never blossoms into a relationship and the two separate almost immediately, for unexplained reasons, though the 35-year-old Houston reportedly had charged his wife with infidelity.
The influential Allen family pressures Houston to resign from office.
Houston abandons his office and wife to live with his Cherokee friends in the Indian Territory.