 He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936.He was appointed chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for a ten-year term in 1937, and he resigned from this position to accept an appointment in 1940, by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, as one of two trustees in the reorganization of the bankrupt Associated Gas and Electric Corporation, and served until August 1946.He died in St. Marys and is buried in St. Marys Catholic Cemetery.