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Foote graduated from Yale in 1797. As a member of the Democratic Republican Party ( Whig Party (United States) ), he was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly for three terms, 1817-18, 1820-22, 1825-27. He served three non-consecutive terms in the House Of Representatives , 1819-20, 1823-25, 1833-35, and one term in the Senate , 1827-33. In the Senate he is most noted for the "Foot Resolution" of 29 December 1829 to limit the sale of public lands. It was during debate on this resolution that Daniel Webster gave his "Liberty and Union, one and inseperable, now and forever" speech. Foote married Eudocia Hull in 1803. They had seven children, the second of whom is Andrew Hull Foote . FURTHER READING Foote, Abram W., ''Foote Family, Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote'', Vol. 1, 1907 (Reprinted and corrected by Laura Belle Foote Beekman and Clarence William Beekman, 1974) Tucker, Spencer C., ''Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters'', Library of Naval Biography, Naval Institute Press, 2000, ISBN 1-55750-820-8. |
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