A. Lawrence Foster

A. Lawrence Foster (born September 17, 1802 in Littleton , Massachusetts , † May 21, 1877 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1841 and 1843 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abel Lawrence Foster attended public schools. He studied law in Vernon . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Morrisville around 1827 .

Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1840 for the 27th Congress he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington DC in the 23rd  constituency of New York, where he succeeded Nehemiah H. Earll and Edward Rogers on March 4, 1841 , which previously together represented the 23rd district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1843 Congress of. During his time in Congress, he chaired the US Treasury Department's Committee on Expenditures .

He moved to Virginia in 1844 and settled on a farm in Fairfax . Part of that land now belongs to Tysons Corner . In the 1850s he served as the Fairfax County Commissioner . During the Civil War , his attitude towards the Union was a reason for temporarily moving to Washington DC. In 1862 he was appointed US Indian agent for the Chippewa tribes in Mississippi. After the war ended, he returned to Fairfax. He was named one of the three U.S. tax commissioners for the northern part of Virginia after Virginia was re-admitted to the Union. He was also responsible for the tax sale of the property ( Custis-Lee Mansion ) of Robert Edward Lee to the federal government, which is now part of Arlington National Cemetery . In the 1870s, his health deteriorated. He then moved to Washington DC, where he died on May 21, 1877.

His heirs introduced in the 1890s, a petition to the US Congress, almost to reimburse them $ 29,000 (about 712,000 $ in 2009) as compensation for his property and supplies, represented by the US Army used or by the Confederates were destroyed . In the early 1900s, the United States Court of Claims approved a partial payment to settle the case.

Hints

1. ↑ Foreclosure auction to cover tax debts

Web links

• A. Lawrence Foster in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• A. Lawrence Foster in the database of Find a Grave (English)