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Lafayette S. Foster

War is best left to the Generals. I believe in letting the military authorities manage the army. If they manage it badly, we shall make a bad matter worse by tampering and interfering.

He lost the vote on this issue, and the Congress created the first committee to investigate and oversee military affairs.

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Lafayette S. Foster

Born: November 22, 1806
Died: September 19, 1880
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Profession: Rhode Island Portal

Biography

Lafayette Sabine Foster was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to 1876.

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