sentences:  Bishop carried on his father's railroad enterprises which involved the construction of the Naugatuck and the New York and New Haven Railroads in Connecticut and the railroad between Saratoga Springs and Whitehall in New York.He was a founder of the Eastern Railroad Association and its president until the time of his death.Bishop was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress for the 4th District and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859.