sentences:  He was an unsuccessful candidate of the Greenback Party for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress.In 1882, running as a Fusion candidate, Yaple defeated incumbent Republican Julius C. Burrows to represent Michigan's 4th congressional district in the Forty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1883 until March 3, 1885.Although elected as a Fusion candidate, he sat with the Democrats in Congress.