[CottonBall]

Nope, I was wrong. Looks like they either served two terms or lost. That’s kind of disappointing. Well, at least they didn’t serve decades and decades in Congress. Or maybe they did…?

[Publius]

Term limits were discussed at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and rejected. It was understood that "institutional memory" was an important concept.

Henry Clay was elected to the House in 1804. He either served in the House or Senate for the rest of his life -- he died in 1852 -- except for the few short years where he served in a president's cabinet.