sentences:  He served as chairman of the Lewis County Republican committee.He served as member of the Republican State committee, serving as secretary, and as a member of its executive committee.Chickering was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, until his accidental death from injuries received in a fall from a window of the Grand Union Hotel in New York City while on a business trip February 13, 1900.