He was elected to the Assembly in 1878 as a Greenback, receiving 1,154 votes to 862 for Republican Robert L. Joiner, and 697 for Democratic candidate former Assemblyman William E. Rowe (Greenback incumbent Owen King was not a candidate). He was not a candidate for re-election in 1879, and was succeeded by Democrat Richard Kennedy. He died of pneumonia in Madison, Wisconsin while the Wisconsin State Legislature was in session.[3]
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^Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin, Vol. 1, Wisconsin State Bar Association: 1905, Biographical Sketch of George Lombard Frost, pp. 198–199.