sentences:  While in Congress, he served on the Committee on Naval Affairs and the House Committee on Ways and Means.In 1868, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat John Thompson Hoffman.Griswold was interested in education, particularly in the areas of science and technology, and served as a trustee of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); he led the reconstruction movement after RPI and parts of Troy were destroyed by the Great Troy Fire of 1862.