sentences:  While still a Federalist Bleecker began a close friendship with Democratic Congressman and Senator John Randolph (1773–1833).Bleecker and Randolph exchanged portraits as a token of their mutual esteem, and each displayed in his home the portrait of the other.Bleecker married Sebastiana Cornelia Mentz of Arnhem, a woman many years younger than him, whom he met while he was a diplomat in the Netherlands.