| LC control no. | n 90613584 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Foote, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1804-1880 |
| Variant(s) | Foote, Henry Stuart, 1804-1880 |
| Birth date | 1804-02-28 |
| Death date | 1880-05-20 |
| Place of birth | Fauquier County (Va.) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Mississippi. Governor Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators Governors |
| Found in | nuc89-10635: His Casket of reminiscences [MI] 1874 (hdg. on CtY rept.: Foote, Henry Stuart, 1804-1880; usage: Henry S. Foote) LC data base, 02-22-90 (hdg.: Foote, Henry Stuart, 1804-1880; no usage given) His The bench and bar of the South and Southwest, 1876: t.p. (Henry S. Foote) The man who punched Jefferson Davis, 2018: ECIP subtitle page (political life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed June 19, 2020 (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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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