Elial Todd Foote (May 1, 1796 – November 17, 1877) was an American physician, politician, jurist and historian.

[2] Foote a studied medicine under Dr. Guthrie and attended medical lectures in New York City.

In the same year, he moved to Jamestown, New York, to begin a medical practice as the new settlement's first physician.

[1][3] In 1822, he purchased 350 acres from the Holland Land Company on which he built his home the following year.

[6] Foote was an abolitionist and his papers associated with his antislavery work are preserved by the Chautauqua County Historical Society in its McClurg Museum in Westfield, New York.

[2] Foote was also a local historian, in which many of his papers contribtued to Andrew W. Young's 1875 History of Chautauqua County, New York From Its First Settlement to the Present Time.