Henry Donnel Foster

Henry Donnel Foster ( born December 19, 1808 in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, † October 16, 1880 in Irwin, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1847, and again 1871-1873, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Foster was a cousin of U.S. Vice President John C. Breckinridge ( 1821-1875 ). He enjoyed a good education and graduated from, among others, the College of Meadville. After a subsequent law degree in 1829 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Greensburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Foster was in the 19th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Albert Gallatin Marchand on March 4, 1843. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1847 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican -American War since 1845.

In the years 1857 and 1858 Foster sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1858, he aspired to return to Congress, but was defeated; In 1860, he also competed unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. In 1868, he ran again unsuccessfully for Congress. In the elections of 1870 he was elected the 21st district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced John Covode on March 4, 1871 until March 3, 1873 completed a legislature. In 1872 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Foster practiced as a lawyer again. In 1879 he moved to Irwin, where he died on 16 October 1880.