Political Career
In 1893, Foster was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the member for Newcastle. He was Commissioner for Public Works from 1899 to 1904 and Minister for Industry from 1902 to 1904 in the liberal governments of Frederick Holder and John Jenkins. He resigned from the ministry in 1904, but still supported Jenkins until it fell in 1905 and was then Commissioner for Public Works and Minister for Agriculture in the conservative administration of Richard Butler, but lost his seat in 1906.
Foster won the seat of Wakefield in the Australian House of Representatives at a 1909 by-election for the Commonwealth Liberal Party. In December 1921, he was appointed Minister for Works and Railways in the Hughes ministry, but was dropped from the ministry in February 1923 by Stanley Bruce. He refused to join the South Australian Country Party and was beaten by its candidate, Maurice Collins in the 1928 elections.
Foster died in the Adelaide suburb of St Peters, survived by his wife, three daughters and a son.
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