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==Later Political Service==
==Later Political Service==
In 1789, Few was elected to the [[United States Senate]] as one of [[Georgia]]'s original Senators. He served through 1793, and was appointed a judge of the circuit court of Georgia in 1794--a position he held until 1797.
In 1789, Few was elected to the [[United States Senate]] as one of [[Georgia]]'s original Senators. He served through 1793, and was appointed a judge of the circuit court of Georgia in 1794--a position he held until 1797.
In 1799, he moved to the state of New York, and served in the New York state assembly from 1802-1805.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&pg=PA1048 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, Inclusive]</ref>
==Later Life==
He was director of Manhattan Bank from 1804 to 1814.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8zcjYPZxPV0C&pg=PA90 Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary]</ref>
==Views on Slavery==
Few was a staunch opponent of slavery. In a letter to Edward Telfair in 1804, he wrote: "every consideration of justice, humanity, and safety, forbids that any more Negroes should be brought into your state....... and in violation of law and every principle of policy and expediency they are carrying on that diabolical and injurious traffic, and hastening those evils in their nature most dreadful, which seems to demand every exertion to retard or prevent it."<ref>[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=3&psid=234 ]</ref>
==Death==
==Death==