Thomas Flournoy Foster (November 23, 1790 – September 14, 1848) was an American
politician
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and
lawyer
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.
Foster was born in
Greensboro
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,
Georgia
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. He attended
Franklin College, the founding college of the
University of Georgia
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in
Athens
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, and graduated in 1812 with a
Bachelor of Arts
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(
A.B.) degree. He studied at the
Litchfield Law School
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, gained admittance to the state bar in 1816 and became a practicing attorney in Greensboro.
Foster was elected to the
Georgia House of Representatives
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in 1822 and was reelected through 1825. In 1828, he won election to the
23rd United States Congress
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as a
Jacksonian and served two additional terms before losing his reelection bid in 1834. He moved to
Columbus, Georgia
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, the following year. In 1840, he returned to the
U.S. House
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as a
Whig in the
27th Congress
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. He only served one term in that position. He died in Columbus on September 14, 1848, and was buried in that city's Linwood Cemetery.
References
''History of the University of Georgia'', Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949 p.156
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1790 births
1848 deaths
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