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During the United States sectional crisis of 1850, which was
precipitated by California’s petition for statehood as a free
state, U.S. Senator Henry Stuart Foote of Mississippi and Daniel
Webster of Massachusetts joined with U.S. Senator Stephen
Douglas of Illinois to draft the Great Compromise of 1850. That
compromise resolved, at least temporarily, the major
controversies between the North and the South.
After the compromise was adopted by the United States Congress,
Senator Foote resigned his seat and returned to Mississippi to
run for governor in 1851. He organized a new party, called the
Union Party, and ran against the Democrat State Rights candidate
John Quitman, the state’s most ardent secessionist. That
election was a bitter factional struggle that transcended party
lines and the only issue was that of union or secession. On one
occasion, when the two candidates held a joint speaking
engagement, Foote and Quitman engaged in fisticuffs, and their
supporters had to separate the two men.
Late in the campaign, when it was evident that Mississippians
would not vote in favor of secession, Quitman withdrew, and the
Democratic Party called on Jefferson Davis to take his place.
But even Jefferson Davis, who resigned his seat in the U. S.
Senate, could not defeat the popular Foote, who won by a narrow
margin.
Foote was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on September 20,
1800, but moved to Mississippi in 1830, by way of Alabama, after
fighting several duels for which he had become rather infamous.
Foote maintained an active and very prosperous law practice in
Vicksburg and edited a newspaper for a short time before moving
to Raymond in Hinds County. Foote was a learned man and wrote
several books, including a highly entertaining autobiography
entitled Casket of Reminiscences.
During Governor Foote’s administration, sectionalism intensified
in both the North and the South, and Foote became increasingly
out of harmony with Mississippi voters, who were moving
gradually in favor of secession. Some leaders in his own party
became disenchanted with the Compromise of 1850 and were
convinced by the late 1850s that the South’s interests could be
protected and preserved only through secession.
Two years after his 1851 election, the voters in November 1853
elected John J. McRae, a strong secessionist, as governor. That
turn of events, plus his own failure to secure his
re-appointment to the United States Senate, so angered Governor
Foote that he resigned from office only ten days before his term
was over. John Pettus, president of the state senate, served the
remaining days of Foote’s term.
Foote moved to California but returned to Vicksburg for a short
period, and then moved to Tennessee. Like many other southerners
who opposed secession, Foote supported the Confederate States of
America after it was formed and represented Tennessee in the
Confederate Congress. When the Confederacy refused to seek a
settlement of the war after the fall of Vicksburg, Foote
resigned from the Confederate Congress.
After the Civil War, Foote opened a law practice in Washington,
D. C. He was appointed superintendent of the United States mint
in New Orleans in 1878 and served in that capacity until his
death in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 19, 1880.
David Sansing, Ph.D., is history professor emeritus, University
of Mississippi.
Posted December 2003
Sources:
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1950),
1170.
Dictionary of American Biography VI, 500-501.
Lloyd, James. Lives of Mississippi Authors 1817-1967 (Jackson,
1981), 173-176.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register (1912), 65.
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature47/governors/15_henry_
foote.htm.
Manuscript Collection
Collection Title: Foote (Henry Stuart) Letter and Autograph
Collection Number: M69
Dates: August 20, 1853
Volume: 2 items
Provenance: Purchase from Shorey, 1969
Copyright: This collection may be protected from unauthorized
copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17,
United States Code).
Biographical/Historical Sketch:
Henry Stuart Foote was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on
September 20, 1800. After graduation from Washington College, he
was admitted to the bar in 1822 and practiced law in Alabama.
Because of controversy over the dueling laws in Alabama, in
1830-1831 Foote left the state and stopped in Natchez, where he
decided to remain. He was defeated in a bid for election to the
1832 Mississippi Constitutional Convention. A practicing
attorney and part-owner of a Jackson newspaper, Foote also
became interested in Texas and participated in a number of
expeditions to the state during the 1830's. He was successful in
a bid for the United States Senate in 1847, resigning his seat
in 1852 after defeating Jefferson Davis for the governorship of
Mississippi. During the Civil War he was a member of the
Confederate Congress, even though he was opposed to slavery and
secession. After regaining citizenship, he became superintendent
of the New Orleans Mint. Foote died in Nashville, Tennessee, on
May 20, 1880. In addition to legal and political interests,
Foote was also an author. His books include Texas and the
Texans, History of the Southern Struggle, Reminiscences, and
Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest.
Scope and Content:
This collection consists of two items relating to Henry Stuart
Foote. One item is a letter written August 20, 1853, by Foote in
response to George H. Morrow's request for information about the
relationship between Lynn Boyd and Henry Clay, who had just
died. In the letter Foote explains how he had worked since 1850
to bring about a reconciliation between Boyd and Clay.
The second item is a short biographical sketch of Foote with his
signature, apparently clipped from another document, affixed to
the top of the page.
Books:
Copies of materials written by Henry Stuart Foote are available
in the Cook, McCain, and Cox Libraries:
Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans: or, Advance of the
Anglo-Americans to the South-West, including a History of
Leading Events in Mexico, from the Conquest by Fernando Cortes
to the Termination of the Texan Revolution [microform]
(Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1841), call number
Z1236 .L5 LAC 22357 (Cook).
Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, or, Advance of the
Anglo-Americans to the South-West (Austin, Tex.: The Steck Co.,
1935), call number F389 .F66 1935 Vol. 1, 2 (McCain).
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of
Representatives. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Majority Report
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs [microform], signed H.S.
Foote (Richmond, Va.: s.n., between 1861 and 1865), call number
Z1242.5 .C7 (Cook).
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of
Representatives. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Report of the
Committee on Foreign Relations [microform], signed H.S. Foote
(Richmond, Va.: s.n., 1862), call number Z1242.5 .C7 (Cook).
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of
Representatives. Special Committee on the Recent Military
Disasters. Report of the Special Committee on the Recent
Military Disasters at Fort Henry and Donelson, and the
Evacuation of Nashville [microform] by H.S. Foote and H.C.
McLaughlin (Richmond, Va.: Enquirer Book and Job Press, Tyler,
Wise, Allegre and Smith, 1862), call number Z1242.5 .C7 (Cook).
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of
representatives. Special committee on the recent military
disasters. Report of the Special Committee, on the Recent
Military Disasters at Forts Henry and Donelson, and the
Evacuation of Nashville [microfiche], Hon. H.S. Foote, Chairman
(Richmond, Va.: Enquirer Book and Job Press, 1862), call number
E18 .S46x (Cook).
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of
Representatives. Special Committee on Fall of Fort Donelson,
etc. Report of Special Committee on Fall of Fort Donelson, etc.
[microform], by Mr. Foote (Richmond, Va.: s.n., 1863), call
number Z1242.5 .C7 (Cook).
Henry Stuart Foote, War of the Rebellion; or, Scylla and
Charybdis. Consisting of Observations upon the Causes, Course,
and Consequences of the Late Civil War in the United States (New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1866), call number E459 .F69 (Cook,
McCain).
Henry Stuart Foote, War of the Rebellion: or, Scylla and
Charybdis, Consisting of Observations upon the Causes, Course,
and Consequences of the Late Civil war in the United States
[microform] (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866), call numbers
Z1236 .L5 and Z1236 .L5 LAC 11461 (Cook).
Henry Stuart Foote, Casket of Reminiscences (Washington, D.C.:
Chronicle Publishing Company, 1874), call number E415.7 .F68
(McCain).
Monroe F. Cockrell, After Sundown: Those Duelling Editors of
Vicksburg, 1841-1860: and "Casket of Reminiscences," by Henry S.
Foote, 1874 (Evanston, Ill.: M. Cockrell, 1961), call number
CR4595.U6 C63 1961 (McCain).
Henry Stuart Foote, Casket of Reminiscences (New York: Negro
Universities Press, 1968), call number E415.7 .F68 1968 (Cox).
Henry Stuart Foote, The Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest
(St. Louis, Mo.: Soule, Thomas & Wentworth, 1876), call number
F396 .F68 (McCain). "
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_William RANDOLPH ____________+ | (1714 - 1745) m 1736 _Thomas Mann I RANDOLPH of Tuckahoe_______| | (1741 - 1793) m 1761 | | |_Maria Judith PAGE ___________+ | (1715 - ....) m 1736 _Thomas Mann II RANDOLPH Gov. of Virginia_| | (1768 - 1828) m 1790 | | | _Archibald CARY of "Ampthill"_+ | | | (1720 - 1787) m 1744 | |_Anne CARY of Ampthill____________________| | (1745 - 1789) m 1761 | | |_Mary Isham RANDOLPH _________+ | (1727 - 1781) m 1744 | |--George Wythe RANDOLPH C.S.A. | (1818 - 1867) | _Peter JEFFERSON _____________+ | | (1707 - 1757) m 1739 | _Thomas JEFFERSON of Virginia 3rd Pres US_| | | (1743 - 1826) m 1772 | | | |_Jane RANDOLPH _______________+ | | (1720 - 1776) m 1739 |_Martha "Patsy" JEFFERSON ________________| (1772 - 1836) m 1790 | | _John WAYLES "the Immigrant"__ | | (1714 - 1773) m 1746 |_Martha WAYLES ___________________________| (1748 - 1782) m 1772 | |_Martha EPPES ________________+ (1721 - 1748) m 1746
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Father: John Quincy TRAVIS Sr. C.S.A. Mother: Sarah Ketturah CONEY |
_John D. TRAVIS Jr.__________+ | (1761 - 1840) m 1786 _John D. TRAVIS III__| | (1803 - 1870) m 1827| | |_Isabelle Cannon GRAHAM _____+ | (1768 - 1838) m 1786 _John Quincy TRAVIS Sr. C.S.A._| | (1832 - 1907) | | | _Joseph "Reverand" RABORN II_ | | | (1779 - 1850) | |_Mary RABORN ________| | (1812 - 1850) m 1827| | |_Sarah_______________________ | (1780 - ....) | |--Lee TRAVIS | (1868 - ....) | _William CONEY Sr.___________+ | | (1767 - 1848) m 1803 | _Jeremiah CONEY Sr.__| | | (1806 - 1868) m 1834| | | |_Rachel BELL? FENNY? ________ | | (1780 - 1825) m 1803 |_Sarah Ketturah CONEY _________| (1844 - 1915) | | _Daniel QUIN ________________+ | | (1779 - 1859) m 1805 |_Emily QUIN _________| (1817 - 1899) m 1834| |_Keturah "Kitty" DEERE ______+ (1780 - 1851) m 1805
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_Henry I WATKINS "the Immigrant"_________________________ | (1638 - 1714) m 1658 _Henry II WATKINS _____________________| | (1660 - 1714) m 1680 | | |_Katherine PRIDE ________________________________________+ | (1642 - 1699) m 1658 _Stephen WATKINS ____| | (1704 - 1758) m 1738| | | _Thomas CRISP "the Immigrant"____________________________ | | | (1630 - ....) | |_Mary CRISP ___________________________| | (1658 - 1717) m 1680 | | |_________________________________________________________ | | |-- WATKINS | (1742 - 1758) | _Anthoine TRABUC ________________________________________+ | | (1629 - ....) m 1646 | _Anthony TRABUE\TRABUC "the Immigrant"_| | | (1669 - 1724) m 1704 | | | |_Bernarde CHIBAILHE _____________________________________+ | | (1629 - ....) m 1646 |_Judith TRABUE ______| (1717 - 1809) m 1738| | _Moyses (Moses or Moise) VEREUL\VERRUEIL "the Immigrant"_+ | | (1650 - 1701) m 1677 |_Magdalene VEREUL\VERRUEIL ____________| (1683 - 1731) m 1704 | |_Magdalena PRODON (PRODHOMME) ___________________________+ (1660 - 1722) m 1677
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