At one point, Wagner was shouted down by legendary Monroe County judge Sue K. Hicks, who as president of the Fort Loudoun Association feared the destruction of the historic fort's site by the proposed dam's reservoir.
He was once more elected assemblyman in 1880 for a two-year term, receiving 2,037 votes against 1,015 votes for C. W. Thurston (Rep.), and 121 votes for Greenback J. Hayward Haight, who had formerly held the seat (the incumbent, Democrat J. W. Parkinson, was not a candidate).
In 1878, Gillette was elected as a Greenback Party member to the United States House of Representatives, serving in the 46th Congress with fellow Iowa Greenback Party member James B. Weaver from 1879 to 1881.
George R. Vincent, Wisconsin physician and legislator of the Greenback Party
The advertisement, entitled "Greenback Mountain", parodies the film Brokeback Mountain by depicting Oxendine as a cowboy who "can't quit" political donations Oxendine allegedly accepted from HMOs during his terms as Insurance Commissioner.
He was not a candidate for re-election the following year, and was succeeded by Joseph B. Reynolds, who ran on both the Greenback and Democratic tickets.
He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 on the Greenback ticket and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from 1879 to 1881, but in 1880 was nominated for the presidency instead of re-election to Congress.
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Weaver was a candidate for renomination in 1880, but he was instead nominated as the presidential candidate of the Greenback Party at its convention in Chicago where he outpolled Pennsylvania congressman Hendrick Bradley Wright.
However, Mosgrove was elected as a Greenback candidate to the Forty-seventh Congress.
He served in the 46th Congress from 1879 to 1881 as a Democratic congressman, having been elected with 58.11% of the vote over Greenback William W. Newman; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.
Joseph B. Reynolds (1836-1898), Greenback member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Morganton, Tennessee, former city in East Tennessee, near modern-day Greenback
During the following presidential campaign, Grady supported Benjamin F. Butler, the candidate of the Greenback and Anti-Monopoly parties.
The two Greenback assemblymen John Banfield (Chemung Co.) and George E. Williams (Oswego Co.) voted for 87-year old Peter Cooper, a New York City inventor, industrialist and philanthropist who had run for U.S. President in 1876 on the Greenback ticket.