David J. Foster

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = David J. Foster

|image = DavidJFoster.jpg

|order1 = Member of the
United States House of Representatives
from Vermont's 1st district

|term_start1 = March 4, 1901

|term_end1 = March 21, 1912

|predecessor1 = H. Henry Powers

|successor1 = Frank L. Greene

|office2 = Member of the Vermont Senate

|term_start2 = October 5, 1892

|term_end2 = October 3, 1894

|preceded2 = Robert Roberts, Henry H. Rankin, Isaiah Dow

|succeeded2 = Elias Lyman, Solomon H. Macomber, Robert J. White

|alongside2 = Samuel A. Brownell, Henry C. Gleason

|constituency2 = Chittenden County

|office3 = State's Attorney of Chittenden County, Vermont

|term_start3 = December 1, 1886

|term_end3 = November 30, 1890

|preceded3 = Chauncey W. Brownell

|succeeded3 = Judson E. Cushman

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1857|6|27|mf=y}}

|birth_place = Barnet, Vermont, U.S.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1912|3|21|1857|6|27|mf=y}}

|death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

|state = D.C.

|spouse = Mabel M. Allen Foster

|children = 3

|profession = Lawyer

|alma_mater = Dartmouth College

|party = Republican

}}

David Johnson Foster (June 27, 1857 – March 21, 1912) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont.

Biography

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Foster was born in Barnet, Vermont, a son of Jacob Prentiss Foster and Matilda (Cahoon) Foster. He attended the public schools in Barnet and graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1876 and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1880.{{cite web|url= https://archive.org/stream/davidjohnsonfost00unit/davidjohnsonfost00unit_djvu.txt|title = david johnson foster |publisher= Library of Congress|access-date= December 21, 2012}}

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1883. He began the practice of law in Burlington, Vermont. Foster served as Chittenden County State's Attorney from 1886 until 1890.{{cite web|url= http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=127676|title =David J. Foster|publisher= Our Campaigns|access-date= December 21, 2012}} He served as a member of the Vermont State Senate from 1892 until 1894.{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html|title =Foster, David Johnson (1857-1912)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|access-date= December 21, 2012}} Foster was the first president of the Young Men's Republican Club of Vermont, which was organized in 1894.{{cite book|last=Forbes|first=Charles S.|title=The Vermonter, Volumes 4-5|year=1898|publisher=Charles S. Forbes|page=232|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uo8eAQAAMAAJ&q=david+j++foster+Mabel+M.+Allen+Foster&pg=RA1-PA232}} He was state tax commissioner from 1894 until 1898.{{cite web|url= http://www.uvm.edu/~hp206/2004-1890/burlington1890/website/dcolman/buell/?Page=120.html|title = 120 Buell Street|publisher= University of Vermont|access-date= December 21, 2012}}

He served as chairman of the board of railroad commissioners from 1898 until 1900,{{cite book|last=Vermont. General Assembly|title=Journal of the Senate of Vermont|year=1899|publisher=Vermont. General Assembly|page=359|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wi4wAQAAMAAJ&q=david+j++foster+chairman+of+the+board+of+railroad+commissioners&pg=PA359}} and as chairman of the commission representing the United States at the first Centennial of the Independence of Mexico at Mexico City in 1910. Foster was the chairman of the United States delegation to the general assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome in May 1911.{{cite book|last=United States. Congress|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005|year=2005|publisher=Government Printing Office|page=1075|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&q=david+j++foster++&pg=PA283|isbn=9780160731761}}

Foster was elected as a Republican candidate to the Fifty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1901, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 1912.{{cite web|url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/david_foster/404249|title =Rep. David Foster|publisher= Govtrack.us|access-date= December 21, 2012}} He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor during the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses. He served as the chairman on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Sixty-first Congress.

Foster was interred in Lakeview Cemetery in Burlington, Vermont.

Personal life

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Foster married Mabel M. Allen Foster in 1883. They had three children together, Mabel Foster, Mathilde Foster and Mildred Foster.{{cite book|last=Vermont Historical Society|title=Vermont history|year=1918|publisher=Vermont Historical Society|page=122|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvEVAAAAIAAJ&q=david+johnson+foster++Barnet%2C+Vermont&pg=PA122}}

References

External links

[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000300 Biographical Directory of the United States]
{{Find a Grave|22661}}
[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html The Political Graveyard]
[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/david_foster/404249 Govtrack.us]
[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=127676 Our Campaigns]
[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t1vd6zq9k;view=1up;seq=5 David J. Foster, late a representative from Vermont]. Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate (1913).

{{US House succession box

| state=Vermont

| district=1

| before=H. Henry Powers

| after=Frank L. Greene

| years=March 4, 1901 – March 21, 1912

}}

Category:1857 births

Category:1912 deaths

Category:Vermont lawyers

Category:State's attorneys in Vermont

Category:Republican Party Vermont state senators