Career
Born near Dover, Kentucky, Foley received a limited schooling. He was employed on a flatboat on the Mississippi River in 1823. He moved to Greensburg, Indiana, in 1834.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits 1834-1837, and afterwards in farming.
Treasurer of Decatur County 1841-1843. He was appointed commander of the Fourth Brigade of State militia in 1852.
Foley was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859). He resumed agricultural pursuits in Decatur County.
He died in Greensburg, Indiana, December 5, 1886.
He was interred in South Park Cemetery.
