[1] In 1865, Bass ran against Grover Cleveland and was narrowly elected district attorney for Erie County.

[1] While in congress, Bass made a name for himself while serving on the House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.

On June 22, 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Bass to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

[4] After moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1877, Bass was asked to be an associate counsel by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Co. Bass worked on a case against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway regarding the right of way through the Arkansas Canon on the route from Denver to Leadville.

Before his early death, they were the parents of one child:[6] Bass died of consumption, in New York City's Buckingham Hotel on May 11, 1889.