He resumed private practice in Wooster, Ohio in 1857. He was elected the fourth lieutenant governor of Ohio and president of the Ohio Senate in the Fifty-third General Assembly, serving from 1857 to 1858, elected on the ticket with Governor of Ohio Salmon P. Chase. He was a Colonel in the United States Army from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War.
He returned to his private practice in Wooster, Ohio in 1857 and was elected to serve as lieutenant governor of Ohio and president of the Ohio Senate in the Fifty-third General Assembly, running on the ticket with Governor Salmon P. Chase. He also served as a Colonel in the United States Army from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War.