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Henry S. Foote

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before he could do so. The Confederate House of Representatives voted to expel him on January 24, 1865, but the vote failed to garner the necessary two-thirds majority. Later, he was appointed a Mississippi Commissioner for Confederate POWs held by the U.S. Army (his son among them). He resigned from
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Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-west; Including a History of Leading Events in Mexico, from the Conquest by Fernando Cortes to the Termination of the Texan Revolution
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in California. His other son, W. W. Foote, also served in the CSA and ran for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from California in 1892. One of his daughters married Nevada Senator
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Mrs Rachel D. Foote, widow of the late ex-Gov. Henry S. Foote, died near Nashville, Tenn., on the evening of January 9, at the residence of her son, Robert G. Smiley.
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Foote was married twice. With his first wife, Elizabeth Winters, he had two sons and three daughters. His son Henry S. Foote Jr. served in the
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from 1878 to 1880. His final public speech, delivered in 1879, was a civil rights speech, and he advocated for the cause in his memoirs.
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but was refused. Given the choice of leaving the United States or being sent back to the Confederacy, Foote fled to
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Foote resigned five days before the end of his term. He then moved to California. He practiced the law in
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of 1861–1865, Foote returned to Vicksburg. In 1859, he was a member of the Southern convention in
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Foote died on May 19, 1880, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was buried in the Smiley family plot at the
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Gonzales, John Edmond (September 1960). "Henry Stuart Foote: A Republican Appointee in Louisiana".
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Foote had a third son with his second wife, Rachel Douglas Boyd Smiley. They briefly resided at
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Coleman, James P. "Two Irascible Antebellum Senators: George Poindexter and Henry S. Foote."
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Coleman, James P. "Two Irascible Antebellum Senators: George Poindexter and Henry S. Foote,"
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in West Nashville, a house built in 1858 on land she had inherited from her grandfather,
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The Compromise was widely criticized in the South by pro-slavery hard-liners such as
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Carter, John D. (May 1943). "Henry Stuart Foote in California Politics, 1854-1857".
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before its annexation and a postwar book on the legal profession and courts in the
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office in 1865 and moved to Washington, where he sought a meeting with President
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Gonzales, John Edmond. "Henry Stuart Foote: Confederate Congressman and Exile,"
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Herbert T. Ezekiel and Gaston Lichtenstein, "The Brains of the Confederacy"
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as a "Southern Rights" candidate. Foote was nominated for governor by the
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and later to London. There he started writing a memoir of the war years.
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Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association
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The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts
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Jefferson Davis. In one debate, he verbally attacked the
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The History of the Jews of Richmond from 1769 to 1917,
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Senator from 1847 to 1851. He was the chairman of the
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Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate, 31: 20: 2543:Democratic Party governors of Mississippi 846: 844: 105:March 4, 1847 – January 8, 1852 1327:United States senators from Mississippi 1191:U.S. senator (Class 2) from Mississippi 689: 508:. He moved to Tennessee and settled in 416:. He played a key role in securing the 309:from 1847 to 1852. 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Shortly after, he moved to 355:Washington and Lee University 331:Second Confederate Congresses 385:, and in the river towns of 1106:11 (December 1965): 384–95. 966:September 17, 2010, at the 875:(10): 156. February 7, 1884 375:University of North Alabama 2569: 1083:46 (February 1984): 17–27. 482:1856 presidential campaign 191:Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. 2092: 2006: 1660: 1467: 1284: 1269: 1261: 1254: 1244: 1235: 1227: 1222: 1212: 1188: 1180: 1173: 1165: 1152: 1147: 1142: 854:46 (February 1984): 17-27 579:in 1875. He attended the 535:, and expressed virulent 351:Fauquier County, Virginia 313:from 1852 to 1854 and an 288: 160:Fauquier County, Virginia 133: 98: 51: 39: 30: 2498:Governors of Mississippi 2473:California Know Nothings 2051:Governors of Mississippi 1143:Party political offices 305:and the chairman of the 1238:Governor of Mississippi 1159:Governor of Mississippi 1126:Works by Henry S. Foote 671:Casket of Reminiscences 609:Confederate States Army 595:Personal life and death 496:Henry S. Foote, c. 1860 455:narrowly defeated Davis 440:Governor of Mississippi 438:In 1851, Davis ran for 311:Governor of Mississippi 46:Governor of Mississippi 1048:The Charlotte Observer 617:William Morris Stewart 604: 497: 339:Southern United States 2553:Tennessee Republicans 2493:Mississippi Unionists 2488:Mississippi Democrats 647:Mount Olivet Cemetery 640:Vanderbilt University 602: 526:Confederate President 520:. As a member of the 495: 299:United States Senator 188:Mount Olivet Cemetery 88:United States Senator 665:War of the Rebellion 613:superior court judge 573:Nashville, Tennessee 550:but was arrested by 546:lines and travel to 403:Texas and the Texans 235:Rachel (Boyd) Smiley 177:Nashville, Tennessee 2478:Mississippi lawyers 1376:T. Hickman Williams 811:Vanderbilt Register 772:The Daily Chronicle 585:Rutherford B. Hayes 325:, he served in the 1223:Political offices 1197:Served alongside: 1184:Joseph W. Chalmers 727:The Daily American 605: 502:American Civil War 500:On the eve of the 498: 488:American Civil War 422:Thomas Hart Benton 418:Compromise of 1850 408:Foote served as a 323:American Civil War 295:Henry Stuart Foote 254:Washington College 233:Elizabeth Winters 147:Henry Stuart Foote 116:Joseph W. Chalmers 2483:Tennessee lawyers 2440: 2439: 2017: 2016: 1619: 1618: 1294: 1293: 1285:Succeeded by 1245:Succeeded by 1213:Succeeded by 1166:Succeeded by 1104:Civil War History 636:Republic of Texas 567:Postbellum career 533:Judah P. Benjamin 464:, and joined the 292: 291: 157:February 28, 1804 2560: 2109: 2098: 2097: 2063: 2044: 2037: 2030: 2021: 2012: 1646: 1639: 1632: 1623: 1486:T. 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Index


Governor of Mississippi
James Whitfield
John J. Pettus
United States Senator
Mississippi
Joseph W. Chalmers
Walker Brooke
Fauquier County, Virginia
Nashville, Tennessee
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Democratic
Union
Know-Nothing
Republican
Alma mater
Washington College

United States Senator
Mississippi
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Governor of Mississippi
American Party
California
American Civil War
First
Second Confederate Congresses
Texas
Southern United States
Fauquier County, Virginia

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