He was the last member of the Whig Party to represent New York's 14th District.

Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress Boyd was United States Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853.

He was elected president of the village of Whitehall, Washington County, New York.

Boyd died in Whitehall, Washington County, New York, on July 2, 1868 (age 68 years, 337 days).

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