Stephen Clark Foster (politician, 1799)

Stephen Clark Foster (1859)

Stephen Clark Foster (born December 24, 1799 in Machias , Washington County , Massachusetts , †  October 5, 1872 in Pembroke , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Stephen Foster was born in 1799 in Machias, which then still belonged to Massachusetts and has been part of the then founded state of Maine since 1820. He attended the public schools in his homeland and then became a blacksmith. He was mainly active in shipbuilding. In addition to his work as a blacksmith, Foster also began a political career. Between 1834 and 1837 he was a member of the Maine House of Representatives . In 1840 he was a member and president of the State Senate . In 1847 he was re-elected to the Maine House of Representatives. In the 1850s he became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

In 1856 Foster was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Maine , where he succeeded Thomas JD Fuller on March 4, 1857 . After a re-election in 1858, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were overshadowed by the events leading up to the civil war. Foster witnessed the departure of the delegates from the southern states in early 1861. In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a peace conference in the federal capital Washington, which unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war.

After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Stephen Foster withdrew from politics. He died in Pembroke in October 1872 and was buried there.

Web links

• Stephen Clark Foster in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen Clark Foster in the database of Find a Grave (English)