• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1893 – 1895 · 2 yrsAppointed by Benjamin Harrison

• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1891 – 1893 · 2 yrs

• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1886 – 1893 · 7 yrsAppointed by Grover Cleveland

Career

• U.S. senator from Tennessee

  1881 – 1886 · 5 yrs

• State representative

  Tennessee

  1880 – 1881 · 1 yr

• Special judge

  Court of Arbitration for Western Tennessee

  1875 – 1877 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1874 – 1880 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1865 – 1874 · 9 yrs

• Receiver of alien property

  West Tennessee, Confederate States of America

  1861 – 1864 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1856 – 1858 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1855 – 1861 · 6 yrs

Education