sentences:  He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841).Beirne was not a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and resumed his former business activities.Beirne died while on a visit in Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama, March 16, 1845, with interment in the family burying ground at Union, Monroe County, Virginia.