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Huger Lee Foote
Born April 24, 1854 Died July 18, 1915(1915-07-18) (aged 61 ) Occupation(s ) Planter, politician, poker player Children Shelby Dade Foote Parent(s ) Hezekiah William Foote Relatives Shelby Foote (grandson)
Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915) was an American planter and politician. He served in the Mississippi Senate . He later sold his plantations to pay for his gambling debts.
Early life [ edit ]
Huger Lee Foote was born on April 24, 1854, in Macon, Mississippi .[1] Hezekiah William Foote , was a planter and politician.[2] [3] Issaquena County, Mississippi .[4] [1] Chillicothe Business College in Ohio and in Texas .[5]
Foote served as the Sheriff of Sharkey County, Mississippi .[3] Mississippi Senate .[3] Mississippi Levee Board .[3]
Foote managed his father's four large plantations in the Mississippi Delta:
His father willed him the Mount Holly Plantation in the late 1880s.[2] [3] [5] Greenville, Mississippi , where he played poker at the Elks Club .[5]
Death and legacy [ edit ]
Foote died on July 18, 1915, in Greenville, Mississippi.[1]
His grandson, Shelby Foote , became a renowned author of historic novels. In his 1949 novel entitled Tournament , the character of Hugh Bart is based on Huger Lee Foote.[3]
References [ edit ]
^ a b Jim Fraiser, The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta , Pelican Publishing, 2002, p. 47 [1 ]
^ a b c d e f Woody Woods, Delta Plantations - The Beginning , 2010, p. 40
^ Justin Glenn, The Washingtons: A Family History: Volume 1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch , Savas Publishing, 2014, p. 1895 [2 ]
^ a b c d e f g Robert L. Phillips, Jr., Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian , Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 50-51 [3 ]
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