sentences:  Hise was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Grider, and he was reelected to the Fortieth Congress.In all he served from December 3, 1866, until his death by suicide on 8 May 1867 in Russellville, Kentucky.He left behind a suicide note in which he rued "the impending disaster and ruin [of the country] in which despotic and unconstitutional rule has involved her."