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1834 Governor SAMUEL AUGUSTUS FOOT Connecticut Military Appointment

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1834 Governor SAMUEL AUGUSTUS FOOT Connecticut Military Appointment
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1834 Governor “Saml A. Foot” Conn Military Appointment
SAMUEL AUGUSTUS FOOT (1780-1846). 28th Governor of Connecticut as well as a United States Representative and Senator.
May 20, 1834-Dated, Partly-Printed Document Signed, “Saml A. Foot” as Governor of Connecticut, measuring 11” x 7.75”, New Haven (CT), Choice Extremely Fine. Being an official Appointment of John S. Bacon as “Lieutenant of the 2nd Rifle Company of the 6th Regiment of Infantry in the Militia...” Bright and fresh looking with a nice Embossed State Seal of Connecticut at upper left. Minor folds, boldly printed and signed with a large signature measuring 3.25” long.
When the War of 1812 Embargo Act ruined his business, Foot returned to his father's farm in Cheshire in 1813, engaged in agricultural pursuits and politics.

Foot was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1817 and 1818, and was elected to the Sixteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821. He was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1821 to 1823 and 1825 to 1826, serving as speaker in 1825 to 1826; he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1825. He was elected by the General Assembly to the U.S. Senate as an Adams' man (later Anti-Jacksonian) within the splintering Democratic Republican Party. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1833.

In the Senate he is most noted for the "Foot Resolution" of December 29, 1829 to limit the sale of public lands. It was during debate on this resolution that Daniel Webster gave his "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever" speech.

Foot was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832; while in the United States Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses).

He was elected to the Twenty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1833, to May 9, 1834, when he resigned to become Governor of Connecticut, a position he held in 1834 and 1835. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1836. Foot later served as a Presidential elector on the Clay-Frelinghuysen ticket in 1844.