Later Career
He was United States Minister to France from 1866 to 1869.
He was Governor of New York from 1873 to 1874, elected on the Republican ticket in November 1872, but defeated for re-election in November 1874. He suffered another defeat when he ran for the Mayor of New York City in 1876.
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“It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good for me was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction... and though strongly, and perhaps wisely, warned that I should probably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with the results of the line of action I have adopted.”
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