After the war, President Andrew Johnson appointed him postmaster of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1866 and he was a member of the State Senate in 1868 and 1869. In 1885, he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress , serving until1887.
He was also the Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico in 1888, consul general at Havana, Cuba, in 1903 and consul general to Hong Kong, China, 1903-1906.
--Old Secesh
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