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In [[United States Senate election in New York, 1869|January 1869]], he was elected a [[U.S. Senator from New York]], succeeding [[Edwin D. Morgan]] and serving from 1869 to 1875 when [[Francis Kernan]] replaced him. While in the Senate, he served as Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate|Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses]] during the 42nd Congress while also serving on the [[United States Senate Committee on Manufactures|Committee on Manufactures]] and the [[United States Senate Committee on Territories|Committee on Territories]].<ref name="REFbioguide"/>
In July 1870, President Grant appointed Thomas Murphy to be the New York Customs House collector, a position rich with patronage. Fenton opposed the nomination, but was unsuccessful when Sen. [[Roscoe Conkling]]
In 1872, he was among the Republicans opposed to President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] who joined the short-lived [[Liberal Republican Party (United States)|Liberal Republican Party]].<ref name="Dunkelman2015">{{cite book |last1=Dunkelman |first1=Mark H. |title=Patrick Henry Jones: Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician |date=2015 |publisher=[[LSU Press]] |isbn=978-0-8071-5967-5 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxYuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |access-date=December 5, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> ===Later life===
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