sentences:  He served as a member of the board of supervisors of Saratoga County and served as chairman of the board in 1845, 1857, 1862, and 1874.In 1859 he was elected to the first board of trustees of the Saratoga Monument Association, charged with building a monument on the site of Burgoyne's 
  surrender in 1777.Marvin was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1869).