Charles C. Foote (March 30, 1811 – May 3, 1891) was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist and temperance activist.
He was the vice-presidential nominee of the Liberty Party in the 1848 election alongside Gerritt Smith.
He spent the next two years studying medicine at Fairfield Medical School with a desire for foreign missionary work.
[2] In 1854, Foote moved to Detroit, Michigan, and served as a traveling fundraising agent of the Refugee Home Society, which purchased land for former slaves in Ontario, where slavery was outlawed.
[3] He stayed in this position until the American Civil War ended and slavery was outlawed, at which time Foote became an agent in the Freedmen's Aid Society.