 Sargent was the Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut for three terms, serving from 1891 to 1894 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor on the Democratic ticket.Sargent died in 1907 at the age of 83.Although large privately owned manufacturing concerns have all but disappeared in the U.S., the company that bears his name continues to prosper as a manufacturer of architectural hardware for the building trades, now under the flag of Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy.