Henry Stuart Foote (1804 – 1880). United States Senator from
Mississippi and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations from 1847 to 1852. He was a Unionist Governor of
Mississippi from 1852 to 1854, and an American Party supporter in
California. During the American Civil War, he served in the First and
Second Confederate Congresses. A practicing attorney, he published two
memoirs related to the Civil War years, as well as a book on Texas prior
to its annexation, and a postwar book on the legal profession and
courts in the South.
In San Francisco he was a law partener of
William M. Stewart.
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a decrepit old gentleman with a fiery red head."
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his hair, though sparse, was fiery red..."
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