Henry Stuart Foote, an American politician, born in Fauquier co., Va., Sept. 20, 1800. He graduated at Washington college, Lexington, Va., in 1819, was admitted to the bar in 1822, and in 1824 removed to Tuscumbia, Ala., where he edited a democratic newspaper. In 1826 he removed to Jackson, Miss. In 1847 he was elected to the United States senate, and was made chairman of the committee on foreign relations. In 1850 he took an active part in favor of the compromise measures, and in 1851, in a hotly contested election,' was chosen governor of Mississippi, his competitor being Jefferson Davis. In 1854 he removed to California, but in 1858 returned to Mississippi, taking up his residence at Vieksburg. In the southern convention at Knoxville in 1859 he spoke warmly in opposition to disunion. During a great part of the civil war he was a member of the confederate congress from Tennessee, and distinguished himself by his personal and political hostility to Jefferson Davis. Not long after the close of the war he resumed the practice" of law. lie has been engaged in several duels, in two of which he was slightly wounded, he has published "Texas and the Texans" (Philadelphia, 1841) and The War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis" (New York, 1866).