Stephen Clark Foster (Maine)

Stephen Clark Foster ( born December 24, 1799 in Machias, Washington County, Massachusetts, † October 5, 1872 in Pembroke, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Foster was born 1799 in Machias, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of the State of Maine was founded at that time. He attended the common schools and was a blacksmith. He mainly worked in shipbuilding. Besides his work as a blacksmith Foster also began a political career. Between 1834 and 1837 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. In 1840 he was a member and President of the State Senate. In 1847 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from Maine. In the 1850s he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

1856 Foster was the sixth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas JD Fuller on March 4, 1857. After a re-election in 1858 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed by the events leading up to the Civil War. Foster experienced early 1861, the exodus of MPs from the southern states. In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a peace conference in the federal capital, Washington, which sought unsuccessfully to prevent the outbreak of civil war.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Stephen Foster withdrew from politics. He died in October 1872 in Pembroke and was also buried there.