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Samuel A. Foot

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in 1817 and 1818, and was elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821. He was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1821 to 1823 and 1825 to 1826, serving as speaker in 1825 to 1826; he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March
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candidate for re-election in 1835. Foot later served as a presidential elector on the Clay-Frelinghuysen ticket in 1844.
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at the age of thirteen, was the youngest student in the graduating class of 1797. He attended the
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National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
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When the War of 1812 Embargo Act ruined his business, Foot returned to his father's farm in
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4, 1823 to March 3, 1825. He was elected by the General Assembly to the U.S. Senate as an
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when he was seventeen, but discontinued law studies due to ill health. He then moved to
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gave his "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever" speech.
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Foot was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; while in the
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Foot died in Cheshire on September 15, 1846. He is interred at
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in 1813, engaged in agricultural pursuits and politics.
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Samuel A. Foote
Samuel Foote (disambiguation)

Governor of Connecticut
Lieutenant
Henry W. Edwards
U.S. House of Representatives
Connecticut's at-large district
Ralph I. Ingersoll
Ebenezer Jackson, Jr.
United States Senator
Connecticut
Nathan Smith
U.S. House of Representatives
Connecticut's at-large district
Daniel Burrows
Ralph I. Ingersoll
U.S. House of Representatives
Connecticut's at-large district
Sylvester Gilbert
Daniel Burrows
Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Ralph I. Ingersoll
Ebenezer Young
Connecticut House of Representatives
Cheshire, Connecticut
Cheshire, Connecticut
National Republican
Whig
Andrew Hull Foote

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