He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Private Land Claims during the Forty-second Congress.
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Mercur was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on December 2, 1872.
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He was subsequently elected to the Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ulysses Mercur.