He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-seventh Congress).
The United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions is a former committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1946.
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The committee had become so overburdened with pensions from the Civil War, that on March 26, 1867, jurisdiction for pensions from the War of 1812 was transferred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
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He was chairman of the House Committee on Pensions in the 78th Congress and 79th Congress and chairman of the Committee on Public Works in the 82nd Congress and from the 84th Congress through the 88th Congress.
He served as chairman of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses).