Charles A. Foote

Charles Augustus Foote (born April 15, 1785 in Newburgh , New York , † August 1, 1828 in Delhi , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Augustus Foote was born and raised in Newburgh about two years after the end of the War of Independence . He attended private schools in Newburgh and Kingston . In 1805 he graduated from Union College in Schenectady . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1808 and then began practicing in New York City . He later worked as a lawyer in Delhi. Foote served as a colonel in the 6th  Division of the National Guard of New York . He was a trustee at the Delaware Academy and President of the Village of Delhi.

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford faction. In the 1822 congressional elections for the 18th Congress , Foote was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded John W. Taylor on March 4, 1823 . Since he on a run again in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

After his time at Congress, he returned to his previous practice as a lawyer in Delhi. He died there on August 1, 1828 and was then buried in the private cemetery on "Arbor Hill" , his father's estate.

family

Charles Augustus Foote had three siblings: Frederick Parsons Foote (* 1782), Harriet Foote (* 1787) and Margaret Parsons Foote (* 1790). On May 10, 1808 he married Maria Baldwin († 1824), daughter of Margaretta De Hart and Jesse Baldwin from Newark ( New Jersey ). The couple had several children, including Frances Foote (* 1809), Catherine Bruen Foote (1811-1898), Rensselaer William Foote (1815-1862), Harriet Foote (1815-1815) and Charles Augustus Foote junior (1818-1896).

Web links

• Charles A. Foote in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles A. Foote in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71 and 81.
2. ^ Katherine Adelia Foote, "Ebenezer Foote, the founder," Delaware Express Co., 1927, p. 218.
3. ^ Maria de Hart Baldwin Foote in the Find A Grave database
4. ^ Abram William Foote: Foote Family , Volume 1, Marble City Press, The Tuttle Co., 1907, p. 204
5. ^ Katherine Adelia Foote, "Ebenezer Foote, the founder," Delaware Express Co., 1927, p. 220.