In 1798, Schuyler was elected to serve as a United States senator, thus helping manage the new country he had helped to create. One of Schuyler's more recent claims to fame is as father-in-law to Alexander Hamilton, who married his daughter Elizabeth. Schuyler died at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany on November 18, 1804, four months after his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, was killed in a duel and two days before his 71st birthday. He is buried at Albany Rural Cemetery in New York.