Complex sentence: He settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 20,1867, and engaged in the practice of law before becoming an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Delegate to the Forty-first Congress in 1869.
Split into simpler sentences: He settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 20,1867, and engaged in the practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Delegate to the Forty-first Congress in 1869.