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As police commissioner, French was subject to controversy over his failure to send inspectors to a general election, and also faced accusations by the mayor of failing to maintain street cleanliness.<ref name=nytimesobit/> Conkling, David D. Field, and Col. George Bliss defended him, and a letter by the mayor to Governor Alonzo B. Cornell was disregarded.
As police commissioner, French was subject to controversy over his failure to send inspectors to a general election, and also faced accusations by the mayor of failing to maintain street cleanliness.<ref name=nytimesobit/> Conkling, David D. Field, and Col. George Bliss defended him, and a letter by the mayor to Governor Alonzo B. Cornell was disregarded.
French took part in the 1880 Republican National Convention as a Stalwart delegate backing the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant for an unprecedented, nonconsecutive third presidential term, as listed among the "Old Guard" 306 by [[Thomas C. Platt]] in the latter's 1910 autobiography.<ref>Platt, Thomas C. (1910). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Autobiography/PXk9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=stephen%20b.%20french The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt], p. 119. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>
===Arthur abandons the Stalwart faction===
===Arthur abandons the Stalwart faction===