Eleazer Kingsbury Foster, Jr. (October 31, 1841 – December 8, 1899) was an American lawyer, state attorney, Superintendent of Florida Schools from 1881 until 1884,[1] and judge.
He studied at the Collegiate and Commercial Institute of New Haven and graduated from Yale University in 1863.
[2] In 1867 Eleazer K. Foster Jr. registered to vote in Saint Johns County.
[3] He was appointed as State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1881 by Florida governor William D. Bloxham.
[7] A tribute was paid to him in the Alachua County court system upon news of his death.