Background
Huger Lee Foote was born on April 24, 1854 in Macon, Mississippi. His father, Hezekiah William Foote, was a planter and politician. His mother, Lucinda Frances Dade Foote, inherited 3,000 acres of land in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
politician Sheriff of Sharkey County
Huger Lee Foote was born on April 24, 1854 in Macon, Mississippi. His father, Hezekiah William Foote, was a planter and politician. His mother, Lucinda Frances Dade Foote, inherited 3,000 acres of land in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
He was educated at Chillicothe Business College in Ohio and in Texas.
He served in the Mississippi Senate. He later sold his plantations to pay for his gambling debts. She died when he was two years old, making him an orphan.
He served as the Sheriff of Sharkey County, Mississippi.
He later served as secretary and treasurer of the Mississippi Levee Board. He managed his father"s four large plantations in the Mississippi Delta:
the Mounds Plantation near Rolling Fork in Sharkey County, Mississippi. the Egremont Plantation in Egremont, Mississippi. the Hardscramble Plantation. the Mount Holly Plantation in Foote, Mississippi.
His father willed him the Mount Holly Plantation in the late 1880s. He later inherited the other plantations, but sold them to pay for his gambling debts.
Indeed, by then, he had moved to Greenville, Mississippi, where he played poker at the Elks Club.
Death
He died on July 18, 1915 in Greenville, Mississippi. In his 1949 novel entitled Tournament, the character of Hugh Baronet is based on Huger Lee Foote.
He served as a member of the Mississippi Senate.