John H. Foster

John Hopkins Foster ( born January 31, 1862 in Evansville, Indiana, † September 5, 1917 ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1909 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Foster attended the public schools of his home and then studied until 1882 at Indiana University in Bloomington. After a subsequent law studies at the Columbian University, now the George Washington University, and its made ​​in 1885 admitted to the bar he began to work in Evansville in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1893 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Indiana. Between 1896 and 1905 he was a judge at the Superior Court in Vanderburgh County.

Following the resignation of Mr James A. Hemenway Foster was at the due election for the first seat of Indiana as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 16 May 1905. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1909 Congress. In 1908, he was not reconfirmed. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Foster practiced again as a lawyer in Evansville. There he is on 5 September 1917, died.