Represented West Texas, 1963–1965 , 1963. In 1962 Foreman was elected to Congress from the 16th District in
West Texas, Foreman was defeated for re-election in 1964, a year in which President
Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan, was reelected over Republican
U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater in a landslide, and the Republicans suffered massive losses throughout the nation.
Represented southern New Mexico, 1969–1971 Following his defeat, he relocated to New Mexico, where he became active in business and civic affairs in
Las Cruces. In 1968 while residing in Las Cruces, Foreman ran for Congress in the southern district of
New Mexico and upset the two-term Democrat
E. S. "Johnny" Walker of
Albuquerque.
Richard Nixon won New Mexico's electoral votes that year over
Hubert H. Humphrey, and that Republican momentum helped Foreman to get elected. Foreman was unseated after a single term in 1970 by Democrat
Harold Runnels.
Appointment to two federal jobs After losing a House seat for the second time in six years, Foreman in 1971 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the Nixon administration, and the following year, 1972, he was appointed to a position at the
United States Department of Transportation, where he stayed until 1976. ==Personal life and death==