sentences:  Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew DeWitt Bruyn Beers was U. S. Representative for the twenty-second district of New York and served from December 3, 1838, to March 3, 1839.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838 but served as delegate to the New York and Erie Railroad Convention at Ithaca in 1839.He resumed his former business pursuits in Ithaca, New York.