Delegates in 1863. He presented credentials as a senator-elect to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1867, but was not seated as a person "who had given aid and comfort" to the Confederate cause by way of giving money to his son "to aid him in joining the rebel army." The charge against him was contested in The New York Times as "partisan intolerance," and in The Chicago Times as "lawless despotism." He was then elected as a Democrat to the 44th Congress from the 1st Congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1875 to 1877, and declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876. He holds the record for the longest non-contiguous service within the U.S. House. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1878. He returned to the Maryland House of Delegates twice, in 1878 and 1883, and then resumed the practice of law in Easton. Death and burial He died in Baltimore in 1890 and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton. References External links Philip Francis Thomas at the United States Department of the Treasury |- |- |- |- |- 1810 births 1890 deaths 19th-century American politicians Buchanan administration cabinet members Comptrollers of Maryland Dickinson College alumni Democratic Party governors of Maryland Democratic Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates People from Easton, Maryland United States Commissioners of Patents United States Secretaries of the Treasury Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland