Foote, Henry Stuart

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    Henry Stuart Foote
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
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    Washington College, VA
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
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    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    Hayes Administration (1877-81)
    US Senate
    Governor

    Henry Stuart Foote (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    FOOTE, 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.
    “Foote, Henry Stuart,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000251.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Foote, Henry Stuart. The Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest. St. Louis: Soule, Thomas Wentworth, 1876. view record
    Foote, Henry Stuart. War of the Rebellion. New York: Harper Brothers, 1866. view record
    Gonzales, John Edmond. “Henry Stuart Foote: Confederate Congressman and Exile.” Civil War History 11 (December 1965): 384-395. view record
    Gonzales, John Edmond. “Henry Stuart Foote: A Forgotten Unionist of the Fifties.”Southern Quarterly 1 (January 1963): 129-139. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Foote, Henry Stuart," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5669.