[4] He served one term in the Assembly (the Second [1849] Session of the State Legislature, which convened on January 10, 1849, and adjourned April 2, 1849) from southern Racine County (the towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, Salem and Wheatland[5]) as a Free Soiler, succeeding Democrat Elias Woodworth, Jr. At that time Thorp was living in or near Bristol.
[7] It is unclear from the sources what the senate district was, and whether he ended up running for the office in the wake of the party split.
[8] In August 1853, he signed the call for a special non-partisan "Anti-Railroad Convention" to nominate a candidate for state senate who would "represent the farmers and producing classes generally" by opposing the subsidy.
He was assigned to the standing committees on town and county organization; and on internal improvements: he served as chairman of the latter.
He died February 7, 1892; they are buried in the Town of Salem in the Liberty Corners Cemetery (latitude 42° 31' 04.1" N; longitude 88° 05' 53.3" W).