sentences:  He was Postmaster of Cheyenne in 1870, a member of the Territorial senate in 1871 and prosecuting attorney of Laramie County from 1872 to 1876.Corlett was elected as a Republican a Delegate to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879)
  
  He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.He resumed the practice of law and in 1879 declined the appointment as chief justice of Wyoming Territory.