John J. Foote

John Johnson Foote (February 11, 1816 in Hamilton, Madison County, New York – April 15, 1905 in Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of John Foote (1786–1884) and Mary B. (Johnson) Foote. On September 24, 1839, he married Mary Crocker (1819–1908), and they had three children.

He entered politics as a Whig, was a delegate to the Anti-Nebraska Party state convention in 1854, and joined the Republican Party upon its foundation. He was Supervisor of the Town of Hamilton in 1854 and 1856, and was both times Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Madison County.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (23rd D.) in 1858 and 1859. In 1865, he sold his business in Hamilton, and removed to a farm in Belvidere, Illinois. From 1873 to 1876, he was Auditor of the New York City Post Office under Postmaster Thomas L. James.

In the 1860 presidential election, he was a presidential elector for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamiln.[1]

He was buried at the Belvidere Cemetery.

State Senator Isaac Foote (1746–1842) was his grandfather.

References

Proceedings of the New York Electoral College, Held at the Capitol in the City of Albany, December 4, 1860. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company. 1861. p. 11.

Sources

The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442)
Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1859 by William D. Murray (pg. 54ff)
Bio at Illinois Ancestors

New York State Senate
Preceded by George W. Bradford	New York State Senate 23rd District 1858–1859	Succeeded by Perrin H. McGraw

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[1] Proceedings of the New York Electoral College, Held at the Capitol in the City of Albany, December 4, 1860. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company. 1861. p. 11.