sentences:  Following the election, an ultimately unsuccessful movement started to nominate him for Governor of New York in the gubernatorial contest of November 1885.In the interim, he served in the Forty-ninth Congress from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887 but, in November 1886, was again controversially defeated by Democrat Nicholas T. Kane with a challenged margin of 81 votes.Upon Kane's death in September, six months after taking office, Swinburne was urged to run in the special election to replace him, but declined any further participation in politics.