His struggle with Henry A. du Pont for control of the state government led to Delaware having both of its Senate seats vacant for a time and was one of the factors which led to election reform and the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913.
He ran for Governor in 1896 as the candidate of the Union (Addicks) Republicans and the National Prohibition Party.
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