Erastus Foote

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Erastus Foote

Erastus Foote (born September 19, 1777 in Waterbury , Connecticut , † July 14, 1856 Wiscasset , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician , also from 1820 to 1831 the first Maine Attorney General . He belonged to the abolitionism movement and was a supporter of the Underground Railroad .

Life

Erastus Foote was born to Obed Foote and Mary Todd Foote. He studied law with Samuel Hiockley in Northampton , Massachusetts and was admitted to the bar in 1800. He opened a law firm in Concord and then moved to Camden , Maine, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1811 he was appointed as the county attorney for Lincoln County.

Foote served with the rank of colonel in the Massachusetts Militia in the British-American War of 1812.

In 1812 Foote was elected to the Massachusetts Senate as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . Since Maine was still part of Massachusetts at the time. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the term of office from 1819, when Maine was striving for independence. Foote supported these efforts and when that was accomplished in 1820 and Maine became a separate state, Foote was directly elected to the Maine Senate and appointed Attorney General of Maine. He was sustained in office in 1824 and 1828. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1840.

Erastus Foote married Susan Carlton (1796-1817), daughter of Moses Carlton, in 1812. They had two daughters and a son. After her death, he married her sister Eliza Carlton (1798–1880) in 1820. They had four children together, a son and three daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Descendants of Danyell Broadley of Bingley, Yorkshire - tobg62.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File. In: bradleyfoundation.org. Retrieved January 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Erastus Foote in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ p.394-5. A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine, from Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century. (No longer available online.) In: forgottenbooks.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forgottenbooks.com

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SURNAME Foote, Erastus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterbury , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1856
Place of death Wiscasset , Maine