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.
He ran unsuccessfully for re-election to the Sixty-second Congress in 1910 and subsequently resumed his legal career in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was then selected to serve as the U.S. representative at a significant event in Peru's history in 1921.