Appointed Provisional Governor of Florida by Pres. Andrew Johnson and tasked with preparing Florida for re-admittance to the Union. He resigned in December 1865 and was elected by the Florida Legislature as a Democratic US Senator. The Republican US Senate refused to recognize his election and he retired back to New York, refusing to run for any office again.
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Cooperstown, NY, Harriet Newell Foote. One child, a dau., wife of Marshall I. Luddington, Quartermaster General, United States Army.
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