Robert Elisha Foster (November 26, 1851 – April 30, 1931) was a Democratic member of the

Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...

, representing

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, from 1912 to his death.

Biography

Robert Elisha Foster was born on November 26, 1851, in Linden, Copiah County, Mississippi. He was the son of Milton Hunter Foster ( – 1905), and his wife Hannah Elizabeth (Greenlee) Foster.

Political career

From 1884 to 1910, Robert was a member and president of the Board of Supervisors of

, Mississippi. He was first elected to the

, representing that county as a Democrat, on November 5, 1911. He was re-elected in 1915. He was also elected in 1919, 1923, and 1927, serving until his death. Foster, while still a member of the House, died after a two-week illness on April 30, 1931, in Brandon, Mississippi."Mississippi, Death Certificate Index, 1912-1943", database, ''FamilySearch'' (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CL3N-PWPZ : 28 March 2020), Robert Foster, 1931. At 79 years old, he was the oldest serving member of the Legislature at the time of his death. He was succeeded in the House by J. C. Newman.

Personal life

He married Nannie E. Heath in 1877. They had three children, Annie Eliza (Foster) Ellis (b. 1877), Robert Heath Foster (b. 1885), and Mary Lurline (Foster) Donald (b. 1887). After Nannie's death, he married Louise Lee White in 1917. He had at least two children with Louise: Nannie E. Foster and Louise Foster.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Robert E. 1851 births 1931 deaths Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives People from Copiah County, Mississippi People from Issaquena County, Mississippi