He settled on a farm on the West River, but later moved back to Baltimore.

His reputation was improved when he became judge of the orphans' court and a trustee of the poor.

[1] Carroll was elected a Democrat to the Twenty-Sixth United States Congress to represent Maryland's Fourth District.

[1] Carroll ran for Governor of Maryland in 1844, winning his party's nomination, but lost in the general election to Whig Thomas G. Pratt by a margin of a mere 548 votes.

He is interred in the Carroll vault in Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.