Dwight Foster (politician)

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Dwight Foster

Dwight Foster (born December 7, 1757 in Brookfield , Worcester County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  April 29, 1823 ibid) was an American politician ( Federal Party ) who represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress .

After completing his schooling, Dwight Foster attended College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in Providence , now Brown University , and graduated there in 1774. He then studied law , was inducted into the bar in 1778 and began practicing in Providence. He was later a Justice of the Peace in Worcester County from 1781 to 1823; in 1792 he also served as sheriff there . At that time he was also a special judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Massachusetts.

From 1791 to 1792 Foster took his first political mandate as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . He then moved into the United States House of Representatives , which was still in Philadelphia at the time, as a representative of the second constituency of Massachusetts . In 1795 he moved to the fourth district. In the House of Representatives, he was, among other things, Chairman of the Committee on Claims . Foster resigned his mandate on June 6, 1800 to move to the US Senate , where he succeeded the resigned Samuel Dexter . On March 2, 1803, Foster left the Senate at his own request.

At this point in time he had been the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in his home state since 1801 , which he remained until 1811. From 1808 to 1809 he was once again a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He later became a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Board and held other offices at the local and state levels.

Dwight Foster died in his hometown of Brookfield in 1823. His older brother Theodore was also a US Senator, but for the state of Rhode Island . His grandson, who also went by the name Dwight Foster , embarked on a legal career and was Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1861 to 1864 .

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