He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress, and resumed the practice of law in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to represent the United States at the centennial of the independence of Peru in 1921.
In 1910, he failed to secure re-election to the Sixty-second Congress, after which he returned to practicing law in Chillicothe, Ohio. Two years later, he was appointed as a special envoy to represent the United States at the Peruvian independence celebration in 1921.