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Henry Allen Foster

FOSTER, Henry Allen, senator, born in Hartford, Connecticut, 7 May 1800. He removed to Cazenovia, New York, in early life, and, after receiving a common school education, entered the law office of David B. Johnson, and was admitted to the bar in 1822. He was a member of the state senate from 1831 till 1834, and again from 1841 till 1844. He was a representative in congress from 1837 till 1839, having been elected as a Democrat, and in 1844 was appointed United States senator in place of Silas Wright, Jr., serving till 1847. From 1863 till 1869 he held the office of judge of the fifth district of the Supreme Court. He has resided for many years in Rome, N. Y.

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