FOOTE, Samuel Augustus [1780-1846] -- American politician

He was born in Cheshire, Conn., November 8, 1780; pursued an academic course; was graduated from Yale College, New Haven, Conn., in 1797; attended the Litchfield Law School; discontinued law studies on account of ill health and engaged in the shipping trade at New Haven returned to Cheshire in 1813 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1817 and 1818; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); again a member of the State house of representatives 1821-1823, 1825, and 1826, and served as speaker in 1825 and 1826; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1833; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1833, to May 9, 1834, when he resigned to become Governor of Connecticut, and served in 1834 and 1835; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1836; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and Frelinghuysen in 1844; died in Cheshire, Conn., on September 15, 1846; interment in Hillside Cemetery. BDAC