sentences:  He served as judge of Queens County and served from February 5, 1823, to March 4, 1829.Lent was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1833.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twenty-second Congress).