For this victory he was
praised by President Madison in his annual message to Congress and by
the legislatures of the different States. Through a misunderstanding
with General John Armstrong, Secretary of War, he resigned his
commission in the Army May 31, 1814. In 1814, and again in 1815, he was
appointed on commissions that concluded Indian treaties, and in 1816 was
chosen to Congress to fill a vacancy, serving till 1819. On March 30,
1818, Congress unanimously voted him a gold medal for his victory of the
Thames. In 1819 he was chosen to the senate of Ohio, and in 1822 was an
unsuccessful candidate for Congress. In 1824 was a Presidential elector,
voting for Henry Clay, and in the same year was sent to the United
States Senate, and succeeded Andrew Jackson as chairman of the Committee
on Military Affairs. He resigned in 1828, having been appointed by
President John Quincy Adams minister to the United States of Colombia.
He was recalled at the outset of Jackson's Administration, and retired
to his farm at North Bend, near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1835 was nominated
for the Presidency by Whig State conventions in Pennsylvania, New York,
Ohio, and other States, but at the election on November 8, 1836, was
defeated by Martin Van Buren, receiving only 73 electoral votes to the
latter's 170.
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