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''For other people named Samuel Foote, see Samuel Foote (disambiguation) .'' Samuel Augustus Foot ( November 8 , 1780 - September 15 , 1846 ; his surname is also spelled '''Foote''') was Governor Of Connecticut as well as a United States Representative and Senator . Born in Cheshire, Connecticut , he graduated frm Yale College in 1797 , and attended the Litchfield Law School. He discontinued law studies due to ill health and engaged in the shipping trade at New Haven ; he returned to Cheshire in 1813 and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Foot was a member of the State House Of Representatives in 1817 and 1818 , and was elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821. He was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1821 to 1823 and 1825 to 1826, serving as speaker in 1825 to 1826; he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1825, and was elected as Adams (later Anti-Jacksonian) to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1833. Foot was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; while in Congress , he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses). He was elected to the Twenty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1833, to May 9, 1834, when he resigned to become Governor of Connecticut , a position he held in 1834 and 1835. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1836, and died in Cheshire on September 15, 1846; interment was in Hillside Cemetery . |
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