Samuel A. Foot

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Samuel A. Foot

Samuel Augustus Foot (born November 8, 1780 in Cheshire , Connecticut , †  September 15, 1846 ibid) was an American politician who served as governor of the state of Connecticut and represented this in both chambers of Congress .

Foot graduated from the 1797 Yale College and then attended Law School in Litchfield . Due to health problems, however , he gave up his law studies and became a ship dealer in New Haven . In 1803 he married Eudocia Hull, with whom he had seven children. One of them was Andrew Hull Foote , who made merits as an admiral during the Civil War . In 1813 Foot returned to Cheshire and turned to agriculture.

From 1817 to 1818 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . After his election to the US House of Representatives , he represented his state from 1819 to 1821 in Washington, DC In the following years, terms of office alternated in Connecticut and in the capital: From 1821 to 1823 and again from 1825 to 1826 he was a member of the state legislature in Hartford on; between 1823 and 1825 he was a second member of Congress.

On March 4, 1827, Samuel Foot finally took up his mandate in the United States Senate ; he represented the interests of the anti-Jacksonians ( National Republicans ) there. The Foot Resolution named after him , according to which the sale of public spaces should be restricted, is remembered from his time in the Senate . During the debate on this resolution, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster gave a speech in which he used the famous phrase "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever." ( Freedom and Union, united and indivisible, now and forever ) Second hand.

Foot missed re-election in 1832, but was elected for a further term in the US House of Representatives, which he belonged from March 4, 1833 to his resignation on May 9, 1834 for the third time. He stepped down to become governor of his home state Connecticut. After two years in office, he failed in re-election in 1836; in the meantime he had joined the Whigs .

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SURNAME Foot, Samuel A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foot, Samuel Augustus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheshire , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1846
Place of death Cheshire , Connecticut