Charles A. Foote

Charles Augustus Foote ( born April 15, 1785 Newburgh, New York; † August 1, 1828 in Delhi, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Augustus Foote was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Newburgh and grew up there. He attended private schools in Newburgh and Kingston. In 1805 he graduated from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1808 and then began to practice in New York City. Later he worked as a lawyer in Delhi. Foote served as a Colonel in the 6th Division of the National Guard of New York. He was a trustee of the Delaware Academy and President of the Village of Delhi.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Foote was in the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John W. Taylor on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for reelection in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Delhi again his former career as a lawyer after. He died there on August 1, 1828, was then buried in the private cemetery on " Arbor Hill ", the estate of his father.

Family

Charles Augustus Foote had three siblings: Frederick Parsons Foote (* 1782 ), Harriet Foote (* 1787) and Margaret Parsons Foote (* 1790). On May 10, 1808, he married Mary Baldwin ( † 1824), daughter of Margaretta De Hart and Jesse Baldwin of Newark (New Jersey). The couple had several children, including Frances Foote (* 1809), Catherine Bruen Foote ( 1811-1898 ), Rensselaer William Foote ( 1815-1862 ), Harriet Foote ( 1815-1815 ) and Charles Augustus Foote Jr. ( 1818-1896 ).