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Lafayette

Sabine Foster (November 22, 1806 – September 19,

1880) was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut.

He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and

was a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to

1876. Born in Franklin, Connecticut, Foster attended common

schools as a child and graduated from Brown

University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1828. He

taught school in Providence for some time and studied law back in Norwich, Connecticut. He took charge of an

academy in Centerville, Maryland, where he was

admitted to the Maryland bar in 1830, then returned to Norwich and was

admitted to the federal bar in 1831. Foster was editor of the Republican,

a Whig newspaper out of Connecticut,

and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives

from 1839 to 1840, 1846 to 1848 and 1854, serving as Speaker of the House for

three years. He was the Whig nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 1850 and 1851,

but lost both elections. He served as mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, from 1851 to 1852

before being elected as an Oppositionist to the United States Senate in 1854, and

reelected in 1860 as a Republican, serving from

1855 to 1867. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions from

1861 to 1867. His wife, Joanna Boylston Lanman, died on April 11, 1859. Foster

was elected President pro

tempore of the Senate at the beginning of the 39th Congress in 1865, and held that title

until the end of his term in 1867. Six weeks after he was elected, President Abraham

Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes

Booth. Two of Booth's accomplices also intended to assassinate Vice President Andrew

Johnson as well as Secretary of State William H.

Seward. Seward's assassin, Lewis Powell, struck but failed to kill,

whereas Johnson's assassin, George

Atzerodt, never acted. With Johnson's accession to the presidency,

Foster became first in the United States presidential line of

succession. Had Atzerodt followed through and successfully

assassinated Johnson, Foster would have become Acting President (in

accordance with Article II, section 1 of

the United States Constitution). In 1866

Foster was elected as a Companion of the Third Class (i.e. an honorary member)

of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military

Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States - a military society

of officers who served in the Union armed forces during the American Civil War and their descendants. Foster

sought reelection to a third term in 1866, but was defeated by Orris S.

Ferry; his Senate career ended on March 3, 1867. He became a

professor of law at Yale College in 1869 and returned to the Connecticut House of Representatives

in 1870. He was once again elected Speaker of the House, but resigned to take a

seat on the Connecticut Supreme Court. He was a Democratic candidate for

the United States House of

Representatives in 1874, but was unsuccessful and resigned from the

court in 1876, retiring from public life. Foster died in Norwich, Connecticut, on September 19,

1880, and was interred there in Yantic Cemetery.

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