sentences:  However, during the election campaign he quarrelled with O'Connell, and after his election he was unseated for bribery.He was subsequently acquitted, and stood again at the 1831 election, but was defeated by two O'Connell-backed candidates, one of whom was his old schoolfriend Maurice O'Connell, Daniel O'Connell's son.Mahon gave up on politics, became deputy lieutenant of Clare, and captain of the local militia.