Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I uru ia ki te tōrangapū hei Democrat. Ko ia te Kaiwhakahaere o Richfield Springs mai i te 1842 ki te 1848. I te Hōngongoi 16, 1846, i marenatia ia ki a Olive Beardsley Hyde (1824<unk>1900). I te tau 1848, ka uru ia ki te Free Soil Party. He mema ia ki te
1856 me te 1860 Republican National Conventions. Ko ia te Kaituku o Otsego County mai i te 1859 ki te 1861.