sentences:  As well as being vice president and president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Bishop served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1866 and 1871.He was also in the Connecticut Senate in 1877 and 1878.Bishop died of chronic endocarditis, a heart disease, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 4, 1904 (age 76 years, 143 days).