in significant need of assistance. Consecutive terms being banned by the state constitution, Porter left office in 1884 and returned to his law practice. Final years and legacy Porter's wife had died in 1875, and on January 5, 1881, he remarried to Cornela Stone. The marriage was brief, and she died in 1886. His party attempted to nominate him to run for governor again 1888, but he declined. He did serve as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention where he delivered a speech and nominated his old law partner Benjamin Harrison to run for president. Harrison won the nomination and campaign and appointed Porter as Minister to Italy in 1889. During his time there, he oversaw negotiations with Italy concerning the lynching of eleven Italians in 1891, following a highly publicized murder trial in New Orleans. He resigned in 1892 and returned to Indianapolis, where he spent the final years of his life working on a book on the history of Indiana. He never finished the book, which remains unpublished. He suffered a hard fall from which his health never recovered, leading to his death on May 3, 1897, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Electoral history See also List of governors of Indiana References Notes Bibliography External links NYT Obituary Biography and portrait from Indiana Historical Bureau Biographical Directory of Congress Albert Porter at FindAGrave Albert Gallatin Porter papers, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library 1824 births 1897 deaths Burials at Crown Hill Cemetery Governors of Indiana Comptrollers of the United States Treasury Indiana Democrats Ambassadors of the United States to Italy DePauw University alumni Hanover College alumni Republican Party governors of Indiana 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana