the death of his brother. In 1872 Hiscock supported Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley for President, and in 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was elected as a representative to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1887. He was chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations in the (Forty-seventh Congress). He was reelected in 1886 for the term starting March 4, 1887, but resigned in order to accept the U.S. Senate seat to which he had been elected in January, 1887. Hiscock was elected to the United States Senate by the New York State Legislature, defeating incumbent Warner Miller and Levi P. Morton in the Republican caucus and Democrat Smith M. Weed in the vote of the full legislature. Hiscock served from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1893, and was chairman of the Committee on Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses). Hiscock was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. After leaving the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Syracuse. Death and burial He died in Syracuse on June 18, 1914 of apoplexy. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. Family On November 23, 1859, Hiscock married Cornelia King (1837-1908), and their children included sons Albert King Hiscock (1861-1908) and Fidelio King Hiscock (1869-1917). Frank Hiscock and his wife also raised their nephew Frank H. Hiscock following the death of his father L. Harris Hiscock. References External links 1834 births 1914 deaths Onondaga County District Attorneys New York (state) lawyers Politicians from Syracuse, New York Republican Party United States senators from New York (state) Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York) 19th-century American politicians Lawyers from Syracuse, New York 19th-century American lawyers