CHEQUE SIGNED LA FAYETTE SABINE FOSTER -1865 to 1867 President Pro Tempore USA

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Lafayette S. Foster: Connecticut Statesman, Jurist and Acting Vice President of the United States
Born in Franklin, Connecticut, on November 22, 1806, Lafayette Sabine Foster was a descendant of Miles Standish and the eldest son of Welthea Ladd Foster and Captain Daniel Foster, a veteran Continental Army officer. In 1828, after graduating with highest honours from Brown University, Lafayette took up the study of law and moved south to head an academy in Centreville, Maryland. He passed the Maryland bar in 1830 and returned to Connecticut to study law under the tutelage of Norwich' s Calvin Goddard. He was admitted to the bar of New London County in 1831 and practised law until 1835, at which time he became the editor of
The Norwich Republican
, a Whig journal in Norwich, Connecticut. Bolstered by a thriving law practice and formidable debate skills, he was elected to a series of local, state and federal government positions:
State House of Representatives: 1839-1840, 1846-1848, 1854, 1870.
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Connecticut: 1847, 1848, 1854, 1870.
Mayor of Norwich: 1851-1852.
Republican U.S. Senator from Connecticut: 1855-1861, 1861-1867 (Chair, Committee on Pensions; Member, Judiciary, Foreign Relations and Indian Affairs committees).
President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate: March 7, 1865, to March 2, 1867.
Acting Vice President of the United States: April 15, 1865, to March 2, 1867, due to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Vice President Andrew Johnson having succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of President Lincoln).
A man of persistence and strong religious convictions, Lafayette S. Foster took the notion of service to his government and its citizens very seriously. His dedication to public affairs was evidenced by both the positions he held and those he did not attain, namely his bids as Whig candidate for Governor of Connecticut (1850 and 1851) and his Democratic candidacy for U.S. Representative (1874).