Complex sentence: He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress, and resumed his former business pursuits in Pasadena, California, where he served as secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation.
Split into simpler sentences: He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress. He served as secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation.