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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiHenry Stuart FOOTE
(1804-1880)
Senate Years of Service:
1847-1852Party: DemocratFOOTE, Henry Stuart, a
Senator from Mississippi; born in Fauquier County, Va., February
28, 1804; pursued classical studies; graduated from Washington
College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in
1819; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced
practice in Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1825; moved to Mississippi in 1826
and practiced law in Jackson, Natchez, Vicksburg, and Raymond;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1847, until January 8, 1852, when he resigned to become
Governor; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Thirty-first
and Thirty-second Congresses); Governor of Mississippi 1852-1854;
moved to California in 1854; returned to Vicksburg, Miss., in 1858;
member of the Southern convention held at Knoxville in 1859; moved
to Tennessee and settled near Nashville; elected to the First and
Second Confederate Congresses; afterwards moved to Washington,
D.C., and practiced law; appointed by President Rutherford Hayes
superintendent of the mint at New Orleans 1878-1880; author; died
in Nashville, Tenn., on May 20, 1880; interment in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Foote, Henry S. Casket of Reminiscences.
1874. Reprint. New York: Negro University Press, 1968; Gonzales,
John E. “The Public Career of Henry Stuart Foote:
1804-1880.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina,
1957.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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