Purviance was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1858.
He moved to Pittsburgh in 1859 and continued the practice of law. He served as attorney general of Pennsylvania in 1861. He resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh until 1876, when he retired. He served as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Republican Party from 1864 to 1868. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874. He died in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now a part of Pittsburgh). Interment in Highwood (formerly Bellevue) Cemetery.
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart was a Virginia lawyer and American political figure associated with several political parties. Stuart served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as a U.S. Congressman (1841–1843), and as the Secretary of the Interior (1850–1853). Despite opposing Virginia's secession and holding no office after finishing his term in the Virginia Senate during the American Civil War, after the war he was denied a seat in Congress. Stuart led the Committee of Nine, which attempted to reverse the changes brought by Reconstruction. He also served as rector of the University of Virginia.
Orville Hickman Browning was an attorney in Illinois and a politician who was active in the Whig and Republican Parties. He served as a U.S. Senator and the 9th United States Secretary of the Interior.
Andrew Stewart was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Winthrop Welles Ketcham was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
John Martin Broomall was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1863 to 1869. He also served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Delaware County district from 1851 to 1852.
James Hepburn Campbell was an Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Samuel Lyon Russell was a Whig member of the United States of America (U.S.) House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Thomas Hale Sill was a Jacksonian and National Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Charles Russell Train was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1859 to 1863.
Jesse Olds Norton was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Thompson Campbell was an American businessman and lawyer who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1851 to 1853.
Timothy Jenkins was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York, serving three terms during the mid-19th century.
Aaron Harlan was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, cousin of Andrew Jackson Harlan.
Edward Ball was an American farmer and law enforcement officer who served two-term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1853 to 1857.
Samuel Galloway was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Chapman Levy Anderson was an American lawyer and politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi, serving two terms from 1887 to 1891. A Confederate Army veteran, he was a member of the Democratic Party.
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