sentences:  Mills later repaid Maury from a commission for an equestrian statue of George Washington.Despite these contributions, Maury merits only a passing and dismissive mention in Constance McLaughlin Green's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, "Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878", in which she writes that "the gentle John Maury was beloved as a man but was a singularly inept politician.” In 1854, at the peak of the Know-Nothing movement in American politics, Maury was unseated by Know-Nothing candidate John T. Towers.Maury died one year later, shortly before his 46th birthday.