Foote, Andrew Hull
(12 September 1806–26 June 1863)
- Kenneth J. Blume
Extract
Foote, Andrew Hull (12 September 1806–26 June 1863), naval officer, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Samuel Augustus Foot, a merchant shipper, U.S. senator, and governor of Connecticut, and Eudocia Hull. Raised in a strict moral and religious environment and educated at schools in New Haven and Cheshire, Connecticut, and briefly at the U.S. Military Academy (1822), Foote (it is not known when he added the ...
