sentences:  Sears was elected to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936 and served as associate member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals of the Veterans' Administration in Washington, D.C., from 1937 until his retirement in October 1942.He died in Kissimmee on March 30, 1944 and was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.