calderhead was elected to the fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding congresses (march 4, 1899 – march 3, 1911). he served as chairman of the committee of expenditures in the department of justice (fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth congresses). he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910. he resumed the practice of law in marysville, kansas, until 1920, when he retired from active business pursuits and moved to enid, oklahoma, where he died on december 18, 1928. he was interred in marysville cemetery at marysville.