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Foster, La Fayette Sabine

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Nov. 22, 1806, in Franklin, Conn.

He was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut in 1839 and 1840, in 1846, 1847, and 1848, and 1854; and was speaker of the house in 1847, 1848 and 1854.

He was chosen a senator in congress for the term 1855-61. In 1860 he was reelected for the term ending in 1867. 1869 he was elected professor of law in Yale college, and in 1870 to a seat on the bench of the supreme court of Connecticut. He died Sept. 19, 1880, in Norwich, Conn.

In FOSTER, MURPHY J. He was born Jan. 12, 1849, in Franklin, La. In 1892 he was elected governor of Louisiana, after the most memorable campaign ever known in Louisiana-the anti-lottery campaign. He has practiced law with success; has declined nomination for congress; and the appointment of associate justice on the supreme bench.