"""Mirabeau B. Lamar ... poet, soldier, hero at San Jacinto, and Second President of Republic of Texas - some said a better poet than president.  However, all agreed """"that he was, even by frontier standards, a dangerous, mean, and uncompromising son of a bitch.""""  His first action as President was to propose """"total extinction"""" of all Native Americans in Texas, essentially a policy of genocide; he began with the peaceful Cherokee, Seminoles, and Delaware tribes of east Texas."""
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