Wallace Turner Foote Jr. (April 7, 1864 – December 17, 1910) was a

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. Born in

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, Foote attended the Port Henry Union School and Williston Seminary,

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, and was graduated as a civil engineer from

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, in 1885. He served as assistant superintendent of the Cedar Point Furnace in Port Henry 1885–1887. He attended

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. He was

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in 1889 and commenced practice in Port Henry. Foote was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898. He resumed the practice of law and also engaged in mining. He died in New York City on December 17, 1910. He was interred in Union Cemetery, Port Henry, New York.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Foote, Wallace T. Jr. 1864 births 1910 deaths Columbia Law School alumni Union College (New York) alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) People from Port Henry, New York 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century New York (state) politicians