biography
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Foote, Henry Stuart
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| lived:
| (1804–80)
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| biography:
| US senator and governor, born in Farquier Co, Virginia, USA. Elected to the US Senate (Democrat, Mississippi, 1847–52), he resigned to serve as governor of the state (1852–4). A Union-Democrat, he later represented Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, resigning to protest Jefferson Davis's policies. After the war he was appointed superintendent of the US Mint in New Orleans. |
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