Robert E. Foster

Robert Elisha Foster (November 26, 1851 – April 30, 1931) was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Issaquena County, from 1912 to his death.

Biography Robert Elisha Foster was born on November 26, 1851, in Linden, Copiah County, Mississippi. He was the son of Milton Hunter Foster ( – 1905), and his wife Hannah Elizabeth (Greenlee) Foster. Foster, while still a member of the House, died after a two-week illness on April 30, 1931, in Brandon, Mississippi. At 79 years old, he was the oldest serving member of the Legislature at the time of his death. They had three children, Annie Eliza (Foster) Ellis (b. 1877), Robert Heath Foster (b. 1885), and Mary Lurline (Foster) Donald (b. 1887). After Nannie's death, he married Louise Lee White in 1917. He had at least two children with Louise: Nannie E. Foster and Louise Foster.