• United States Court of Claims

  Judge

  1878 – 1881 · 3 yrsAppointed by Rutherford B. Hayes

Career

• Minister to Russia

  U.S. Department of State

  1882 – 1884 · 2 yrs

• Secretary of the Navy

  1881 – 1882 · 1 yr

• Attorney general

  State of Louisiana

  1876 – 1877 · 1 yr

• Acting professor of civil law

  University of Louisiana Law School

  1866 – present · 160 yrs

• Confederate Army lieutenant colonel

  1862 – present · 164 yrs

• Private practice

  1844 – 1878 · 34 yrs

Education