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On his return to Texas, House ran his family's business. He eventually sold the cotton [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]s, and invested in banking. He was a founder of the [[Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway]]. House moved to New York City about 1902.
In 1912, House anonymously published a novel called ''[[Philip Dru: Administrator]]'', in which the title character leads the democratic Western U.S. in a civil war against the [[plutocratic]] East, becoming the dictator of America and turns it into “Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx”.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Edward Mandell House |url=https://archive.org/details/philipdruadmini00housgoog/page/n58/mode/1up |title=Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 ... |date=1912 |publisher=B. W. Huebsch |others=Harvard University |language=English}}</ref> Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms which resemble the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Bull Moose platform of 1912]] and then vanishes.<ref>Lasch, pp. 230–35.</ref>
House helped to make four men [[governor of Texas]]: [[Jim Hogg|James S. Hogg]] (1892), [[Charles Allen Culberson|Charles A. Culberson]] (1894), [[Joseph D. Sayers]] (1898), and [[S. W. T. Lanham]] (1902). After their elections, House acted as unofficial adviser to each. In 1893, Hogg appointed House to his military staff with the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]], a position which came with a title but no actual military responsibilities.<ref name=Volume_1>{{cite book |last=Richardson |first=Rupert Norval |date=1964 |title=Colonel Edward M. House |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amYBcP-OYJ8C&q=%22lieutenant+colonel%22 |location=Abilene, TX |publisher=Hardin-Simmons University |page=223}}</ref> He was reappointed by Culberson, Sayers, and Lanham, and was soon known as "Colonel House", the title which he used for the rest of his career.<ref name=Volume_1/>
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The conference revealed serious policy disagreements and personality conflicts between Wilson and House. Wilson became less tolerant and broke with his closest advisers, one after another. Later, he dismissed House's son-in-law, Gordon Auchincloss, from the American peace commission when it became known the young man was making derogatory comments about him.<ref name=Berg>{{cite book|last=Berg|first=A. Scott|author-link=A. Scott Berg|title=Wilson|year=2013|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-399-15921-3|pages=571|title-link=Wilson (book)}}</ref>
In February 1919, House took his place on the [[Treaty of Versailles|Council of Ten]], where he negotiated compromises unacceptable to Wilson. The following month, Wilson returned to Paris. He decided that House had taken too many liberties in negotiations, and relegated him to the sidelines. After they returned to the US later that year, the two men never saw or spoke to each other again.<ref name=Berg/><!--page=601}}--> Shortly after returning to Washington, Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke, the extent of which was concealed from the public and the press. Other than his doctors, direct access to the president was now limited
==Later years==
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