Ephraim Hubbard Foster

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Ephraim Hubbard Foster

Ephraim Hubbard Foster (born September 17, 1794 in Bardstown , Nelson County , Kentucky , † September 6, 1854 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American politician of the Whig Party .

Kentucky native Foster's family moved to Tennessee when he was a child and settled in Nashville. He graduated from Cumberland College in 1813 and was admitted to the bar in 1820 after completing his law degree. As a result, he first served as a soldier in the war against the Creek ; later he was for a period private secretary to General Andrew Jackson .

Politically, Foster was initially active at the state level in the House of Representatives of Tennessee , to which he belonged from 1829 to 1831 and again from 1835 to 1837, where he held the office of speaker . After US Senator Felix Grundy was appointed Attorney General of the USA, Foster was elected as his successor in the Senate by the Tennessee State Legislature in 1838. His term of office, which began on September 17, 1838, ended on March 3, 1839. He did not accept the renewed election by the parliamentarians of his state because he was not prepared to follow their instructions when voting. Instead, Felix Grundy returned to his former Senate seat.

However, Grundy died the following year. Alfred OP Nicholson became the successor, but only on an interim basis. As a result, the seat was even vacant for some time before the members of the state legislature agreed to elect Ephraim Foster a second time. He took office on October 17, 1843 and remained in Washington until March 3, 1845 .

After his retirement from the Senate, Foster was nominated by the Whigs for election to governor of Tennessee. However, he was defeated by the Democrat Aaron V. Brown and then ended his political career to work as a lawyer again. Shortly after retiring, Ephraim Foster died in Nashville.

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