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Failure is an Option Apparently massive failure on the battlefield is no hindrance to being a member of Congress. Alexander Smyth, who was such a failure that the government simply struck his name from the rolls (as if he had never existed), became a Congressman from Virginia from March 1817 until March 1825 and again from March 1827 until March 1830. Stephen Van Rensselaer, although as suspected could not become New York state governor after his defeat at Queenston Heights, did become a congressman from February 1822 to March 1829 . . . and was the deciding vote that put John Quincy Adams in the White house.
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