Lucian Rose Foster (12 November 1806 – 19 March 1876)[1] was a photographer, accountant, bookkeeper, and clerk who was a member of the Latter Day Saint movement.
[1] He would later serve as member of the central correspondence committee for Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential campaign,[1][2] and was also admitted to the Council of Fifty on 1 March 1845.
[5] The Mormon photojournalist and writer Nelson B. Wadsworth speculated that Foster learned how to daguerreotype under Samuel F. B. Morse, although this has been disputed for lack of evidence.
[6] Foster released his first advertisement in the Nauvoo Neighbor on 14 August 1844[3][7] which said that he could produce "an image of the person, as exact as that formed by the mirror transferred to, and permanently fixed upon a highly polished silver through the agency of an optical instrument.
[6][8] He was present in the grand jury of Nauvoo during the May 1845 term, along with four other Mormons: Daniel Spencer, Hiram Kimball, Samuel Bent, and Peter Hawes (1796-1860).