Orendorff also began a political career in 1870 , when the Republicans selected him as their nominee for the Illinois Senate ; Orendorff lost the general election to Democrat Alexander Starne . Orendorff then threw in his lot with the Democrats and was a delegate to the 1872 Democratic National Convention , at which he supported the presidential candidacy of Sen. Lyman Trumbull . In 1873 , the Liberal Republican Party nominated Orendorff for the Illinois House of Representatives and Orendorff was subsequently endorsed by the Democrats . During this session , he was a member of the Judiciary Committed and helped draft a number of statutes necessitated by the 1870 Illinois Constitution
1872 Democratic National Convention
1872 Democratic National Convention
Alfred Orendorff