Background
Bishop was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey son of Alfred Bishop and Mary (Ferris) Bishop, and pursued preparatory studies.
Bishop was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey son of Alfred Bishop and Mary (Ferris) Bishop, and pursued preparatory studies.
Graduating from Yale College in 1849, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar but did not practice.
He was the president of the Naugatuck Railroad Company and the New York and New Haven Railroad Company
Bishop carried on his father"s railroad enterprises which involved the construction of the Naugatuck and the New York and New Haven Railroads in Connecticut and the railroad between Saratoga Springs and Whitehall in New New York Bishop was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress for the 4th District and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859. He was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Thirty-fifth Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but served as commissioner of patents from May 23, 1859, to January 1860.
He was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut in 1860. He was also in the Connecticut Senate in 1877 and 1878.
Bishop died of chronic endocarditis, a heart disease, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 4, 1904 (age 76 years, 143 days). He was cremated and his ashes are interred at Mountain Grove Cemetery.
He also was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1872, and in the Connecticut Senate from 1866 to 1874, and from 1877 to 1878. As well as being vice president and president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Bishop served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1866 and 1871.