sentences:  He studied law with Horatio Ballard, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Cortland, New York.Conger was also editor and owner of a newspaper, the Cortland County Whig, from 1840 to 1845.He was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1851.