He traveled on to the home of John Jolly, also known as Chief Oolooteka, who took him in as a boy. He later said of that night, "When I lay myself down to sleep that night I felt like a weary wanderer returned at last to his father's house." During this time with the Cherokee, he became known as the "big drunk", although he had been a drinker and womanizer before his marriage. After Houston's marriage, he ceased to be the protege of Andrew Jackson, who had helped him become a congressman and the governor of Tennessee.
