He held several important offices in his State, and as senator served more than one term with De Witt Clinton, Martin Van Buren and others of distinction.

[1] Drake and her husband worked with Robert Dale Owen during the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 and 1851 to remove the legal disabilities of women.

She had an acute legal mind, and Owen was not slow to recognize her valuable aid in the construction of the important clauses.

Those two communities, although striving in different ways to benefit humanity, had much to do with broadening his views and making his after-life tolerant and charitable, and probably had an influence in developing his young wife's interest in the laws relating to women.

Drake was left a widow in 1876 and died at her residence, on February 11, 1892, and is buried at Maple Hill Cemetery (Huntsville, Alabama).