 Senator and U.S. Representative) and Francis Hendricks (a New York State Assemblyman, Senator and Mayor of Syracuse).The triumvirate later became the "Big Four" of Republican state politics with only Aldridge remaining alongside U.S. Representative William L. Ward, Fred Greiner (veteran of Erie County), and James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of Western New York.In 1888, he became a member of the New York Republican State Committee and soon thereafter was placed on the Executive Committee which he served on until his death.