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Senate Years of Service: 1851-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1866 Party: Whig; Opposition; Republican
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FOOT, Solomon, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Cornwall, Addison County,
Vt., November 19, 1802; pursued classical studies, and graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in
1826; taught school 1826-1831; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice
in Rutland, Vt.; member, State house of representatives 1833, 1836-1838, serving as speaker the last
two sessions; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1836; prosecuting attorney
1836-1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4,
1843-March 3, 1847); elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1850; reelected as a
Republican in 1856 and 1862, and served from March 4, 1851, until his death on March 28, 1866;
served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth
Congresses; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-seventh through
Thirty-ninth Congresses); died in Washington, D.C.; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the
United States Senate; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Vt.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for
Solomon Foot. 39th Cong., 1st sess., 1865. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1865.
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