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governor of Mississippi senator
Henry Stuart Foote was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. His parents, Richard Helm Foote and Jane Stuart, were cousins and of English and Scotch ancestry.
After graduating from Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, in 1819, Foote studied law and was admitted to the bar at Richmond in 1823.
He soon moved to Tuscumbia, Alabama, and then to Mississippi, where he lived at various times in Jackson, Natchez, Vicksburg, and Raymond, practising law and sometimes editing newspapers.
As a criminal lawyer he is said to have had no equal in Mississippi (“Proceedings of the Nashville Bar, ” Daily American, May 21, 1880).
His first political move was an unsuccessful campaign for membership in the Mississippi constitutional convention of 1832. His reputation was increased by ably defending Jackson on the stump in 1835.
In 1839 he resigned the office of United States surveyor-general south of Tennessee and entered the state legislature as representative of Hinds County.
His interest in the independence of Texas is shown by a visit to that country in this same year, an interest which eventuated in his first book, Texas and. the Texans (2 vols. , 1841).
In 1847 he was elected to the United States Senate, where he ardently supported the compromise measures of 1850. All the other Mississippi congressmen opposed these measures, particularly his colleague in the Senate, Jefiferson Davis.
Heated words passed, not only over the measures themselves, but over the question of the right of secession and the attitude of their constituents toward these questions (Congressional Globe, 31 Cong. , 1 Sess. ). The antagonism was personal as well as public, for three years earlier Foote and Davis had exchanged blows at their boarding house (Dunbar Rowland, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 1923, VII, 393 ff. ) .
In view of the fact that the Mississippi legislature passed resolutions censuring Foote for advocating the compromise measures, his defeat of Davis for the governorship of that state in 1851 is surprising, and is a monument to his great ability as a stump speaker.
Five days before the expiration of his term, Foote resigned the governorship and moved to California. He returned to Mississippi after four years, but his lack of harmony with the people of that section in regard to disunion soon led to his removal to Tennessee.
In view of his opposition to secession, Foote might be accused of inconsistency in entering the lower house of the Confederate Congress, but he was at least consistent in criticizing President Davis and his administration.
When Lincoln’s peace proposals were not accepted, Foote left Richmond in disgust, sent his resignation to the Confederate Congress, and after a brief incarceration by the Confederate authorities, entered Union territory.
When his communications to Seward and Lincoln on the subject of terms of peace were coolly received, Foote departed for Europe. He might well be called the Vallandigham of the South.
He attempted to justify his part in the Civil War and its preliminaries in his book, The War of the Rebellion (1866). In this work he vigorously opposed the idea that the war was an “Irrepressible Conflict. ” He also wrote Casket of Reminiscences (1874), a valuable and interesting commentary on many of Foote’s prominent friends and opponents, and Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest (1876).
For a short time before his death, which occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, he was superintendent of the United States Mint in New Orleans.
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He was a charming conversationalist and an able public speaker but he too often indulged in personalities, a trait which resulted in four formal duels and other less formal encounters.
He was twice married: first to Elizabeth Winters in Tuscumbia, Alabama; and after her death to Mrs. Rachel D. Smiley of Nashville, Tennessee.