David J. Foster

David Johnson Foster ( * June 27, 1857 in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont, † March 21, 1912 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1912 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Foster attended the public schools of his home and then to 1876, the St. Johnsbury Academy. He then completed in 1890, Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After studying law and its made ​​in 1883 admitted to the bar in Burlington Foster began to work in his new profession. Between 1886 and 1890 he was a prosecutor in Chittenden County.

Politically, Foster was a member of the Republican Party. From 1892 to 1894 he sat in the Senate from Vermont. In the years 1894-1898 he was a tax commissioner of the state and from 1898 to 1900 he was chairman of the railroad committee. In the years 1910 and 1911, he led American delegations to the 100 - year celebration of the Independence of Mexico in Mexico City and an international agricultural meeting in Rome.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Foster was elected in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1901 the successor of Henry H. Powers. After he was confirmed in the following midterm elections up to and including 1910 each in his mandate, Foster was able to remain until his death on March 21, 1912 in Congress. From 1905 to 1911 he was chairman of the committee that controlled the expenditure of the Department of Commerce. Between 1909 and 1911 he was also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. David Foster was buried in Burlington.