Holcombe held several local offices and was a member of the
New Jersey General Assembly in 1815 and 1816.
Congress He was elected as
Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as a
Jacksonian Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, and held office from March 4, 1821, until his death. == Death and burial ==