Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan barin Babban Taron, Archer ya sake samun matsayinsa a matsayin sakataren gundumar Clark a 1848 kuma ya riƙe shi har zuwa 1852. Ya kuma kasance wakili ne a taron kundin tsarin mulki na Illinois na 1847 kuma ya yi ƙoƙari ya sake yin nasara a matsayin Whig a shekara ta 1854, wannan lokacin ya rasa James C. Allen. Bayan da Archer ya yi nasara wajen kalubalantar sakamakon zaben, an sake maimaita zaben a 1856, amma ya sake rasa. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin wakili a taron farko na Republican National Convention a 1856
, yana goyon bayan abokinsa Lincoln wanda bai yi nasara ba a zaben mataimakin shugaban kasa.