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Henry Donnel Foster (December 19, 1808 – October 16, 1880) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
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Biography

Henry D. Foster (cousin of
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) was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania. He pursued classical studies, and graduated from the College of Meadville. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in
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. Foster was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses. He served as a member of the
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in 1857 and 1858. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in
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. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for
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in 1860. He unsuccessfully contested the election of
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to the Forty-first Congress. Foster was again elected to the Forty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
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. He resumed the practice of law in Greensburg. He moved to Irwin, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and died there in 1880. Interment in St. Clair Cemetery in Greensburg.


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The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Henry D. 1808 births 1880 deaths People from Mercer, Pennsylvania Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Pennsylvania lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American lawyers