Barnabas Burns
After the war , Burns continued his political activity , running for Congress again in an 1868 special election that followed the sudden death of Cornelius S . Hamilton; he lost by 385 votes to John Beatty . The same year , he served as a delegate to the 1868 Democratic National Convention . Burns was also a delegate to Ohio's 1873 constitutional convention ( the resulting constitution was rejected by the voters . ) That same year , Burns ran for lieutenant governor , and lost to Republican Alphonso Hart by just 635 votes . 
<triplet> 1868 Democratic National Convention <subj> 1868 <obj> point in time