sentences:  He was elected as a Republican candidate to the 48th and 49th Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1887.While in Congress, he served on the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors.He died of appendicitis in Whitehall, New York on August 10, 1900, and was interred at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Ticonderoga, New York.