Kammala wannan jumla: Ya shiga siyasa a matsayin dan Democrat. Ya kasance Postmaster na Richfield Springs daga 1842 zuwa 1848. A ranar 16 ga Yuli, 1846, ya auri Olive Beardsley Hyde (1824<unk>1900). A shekara ta 1848, ya shiga Jam'iyyar Free Soil. Ya kasance wakili ne ga
1856 da kuma 1860 Republican National Conventions. Ya kasance Clerk na Otsego County daga 1859 zuwa 1861.