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American politician (1780–1846) For other people named Samuel Foote, see Samuel Foote (disambiguation).
Samuel A. Foot
28th Governor of Connecticut
In office
May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835
LieutenantThaddeus Betts
Preceded byHenry W. Edwards
Succeeded byHenry W. Edwards
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1833 – May 9, 1834
Preceded byRalph I. Ingersoll
Succeeded byEbenezer Jackson, Jr.
United States Senator
from Connecticut
In office
March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1833
Preceded byHenry W. Edwards
Succeeded byNathan Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
Preceded byDaniel Burrows
Succeeded byRalph I. Ingersoll
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821
Preceded bySylvester Gilbert
Succeeded byDaniel Burrows
5th Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
In office
1825–1826
Preceded byRalph I. Ingersoll
Succeeded byEbenezer Young
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
In office
1817-1818
1821-1823
1825-1826
Personal details
BornSamuel Augustus Foot
November 8, 1780
Cheshire, Connecticut, US
DiedSeptember 15, 1846(1846-09-15) (aged 65)
Cheshire, Connecticut, US
Political partyNational Republican (1824–1834)
Whig (1834–1846)
SpouseEudocia Hull Foot
ChildrenAndrew Hull Foote
Alma materYale College
Litchfield Law School
Professionfarmer, politician

Samuel Augustus Foot (November 8, 1780 – September 15, 1846; his surname is also spelled Foote) was the 28th Governor of Connecticut as well as a United States representative and Senator.

Biography

Born November 8, 1780 in Cheshire, Connecticut, to John & Abigail (Hall) Foot. Having entered Yale College at the age of thirteen, was the youngest student in the graduating class of 1797. He attended the Litchfield Law School when he was seventeen, but discontinued law studies due to ill health. He then moved to New Haven, Connecticut; became a West India Trader and made many voyages for his health. He married Eudocia Hull in 1803 and they had seven children (the second of whom was Andrew Hull Foote).

Career

When the War of 1812 Embargo Act ruined his business, Foot returned to his father's farm in Cheshire in 1813, engaged in agricultural pursuits and politics.

Foot was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1817 and 1818, and was elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821. He was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1821 to 1823 and 1825 to 1826, serving as speaker in 1825 to 1826; he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1825. He was elected by the General Assembly to the U.S. Senate as an Adams' man (later Anti-Jacksonian) within the splintering Democratic Republican Party. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1833. In the Senate he is most noted for the "Foot Resolution" of December 29, 1829 to limit the sale of public lands. It was during debate on this resolution that Daniel Webster gave his "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever" speech.

Foot was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; while in the United States Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses). He was elected to the Twenty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1833, to May 9, 1834, when he resigned to become Governor of Connecticut, a position he held in 1834 and 1835. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for re-election in 1835. Foot later served as a presidential elector on the Clay-Frelinghuysen ticket in 1844.

Death

Foot died in Cheshire on September 15, 1846. He is interred at Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, Connecticut.

References

  1. "Samuel A Foot". Litchfield Historical Society. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. "Samuel A. foot". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  3. "Samuel A. Foot". Govtrack US Congress. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  4. "Samuel A. Foot". National Governors Association. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  5. "Samuel A. Foot". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 30 November 2012.

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Party political offices


First Whig nominee for Governor of Connecticut
1834, 1835 		Succeeded byWilliam W. Ellsworth
U.S. Senate
Preceded byHenry W. Edwards U.S. senator (Class 1) from Connecticut
March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1833
Served alongside: Calvin Willey, Gideon Tomlinson 		Succeeded byNathan Smith
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded bySylvester Gilbert Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large congressional district
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 		Succeeded byDaniel Burrows
Preceded byDaniel Burrows Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large congressional district
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 		Succeeded byRalph I. Ingersoll
Preceded byRalph I. Ingersoll Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's at-large congressional district
March 4, 1833 – May 9, 1834 		Succeeded byEbenezer Jackson Jr.
Political offices
Preceded byHenry W. Edwards Governor of Connecticut
May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835 		Succeeded byHenry W. Edwards
United States senators from Connecticut
Class 1 United States Senate
Class 3
Governors of Connecticut
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