sentences:  He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893, during which he served as chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency.An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892, he resumed the practice of law in Goshen.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892 and was on the Corporation counsel of Goshen from 1909 to 1915.