Henry S. Foote
Henry Stuart Foote (February 28, 1804 - May 19, 1880) was a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1852 and Governor of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854.
He was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He pursued classical studies and graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in 1819. He later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1825. In 1826 he moved to Mississippi and practiced law in Jackson, Natchez, Vicksburg, and Raymond. He was later elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, until January 8, 1852, when he resigned to become Governor after defeating Jefferson Davis in the election of 1851. In 1854, after his period as governor, he moved to California. A few years later, in 1858, he returned to Vicksburg. In 1859 he was a member of the Southern convention held at Knoxville. He later moved to Tennessee and settled near Nashville, where he was elected to the First and Second Confederate Congresses. Afterwards he moved to Washington, D.C., and practiced law. He was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as superintendent of the mint at New Orleans 1878-1880. He died in Nashville on May 20, 1880.
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