Ellsworth Foote

Ellsworth Bishop Foote ( born January 12, 1898 in North Branford, Connecticut; † January 18, 1977 in Guilford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the third electoral district of the State of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ellsworth Foote attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1916, the Yale Business College. After studying law at George Washington University and its made ​​in 1924 admitted to the bar he began in New Haven to work in his new profession. Between 1924 and 1946 he was a legal financial advisor to the City North Branford, since 1934, he was Chairman of that Finance Committee. Between 1925 and 1926, Foote worked for the Federal Ministry of Justice. From 1938 to 1946 he was judge of the probate court in North Branford. In the years 1942 to 1946 Foote also served as district attorney in New Haven County.

Foote was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1946 he was in the third district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 3, 1947 to succeed the Democrats James P. Geelan, whom he had defeated in the election. But since he 1948 the Democrat John A. McGuire defeated itself in the elections of the year, Foote was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1949.

Between 1949 and 1960, Foote was again District Attorney in New Haven County. He was again financial advisor to the City North Branford. He also worked as a lawyer again. Ellsworth Foote died on January 18, 1977 in Guilford, and was buried in North Branford.