In 1825, he won election to the United States Congress as a Democrat, where he served through 1829.
Upon leaving the Congress, he served on the commission for the Deaf and Blind Institution for the states of New York and Ohio.
He also served as an associate judge of Berks County from 1839 through 1842, and as a captain in the Reading City Troop.
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