Late Life
He ran for Congress three times, but was not elected, despite garnering the popular vote. In 1800 he again found himself in debt, but within a few years had accumulated property. He remarried in 1805, to Winifred Deady; they had no children. He finally retired in 1819 to Mississippi, where he stayed until his death.
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