Secretary of the Interior
1885 – 1888 · 3 yrs
U.S. senator from Mississippi
1877 – 1885 · 8 yrs
U.S. representative from Mississippi
1873 – 1877 · 4 yrs
Professor
University of Mississippi
1865 – 1870 · 5 yrs
Private practice
1865 – 1873 · 8 yrs
Confederate Army judge advocate
Third Army Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia
1863 – 1865 · 2 yrs
Special Confederate commissioner to Russia
1862 – 1863 · 1 yr
Professor
University of Mississippi
1861 – present · 165 yrs
Confederate Army lieutenant colonel
Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment
1861 – 1862 · 1 yr
U.S. representative from Mississippi
1857 – 1860 · 3 yrs
Professor
University of Mississippi
1855 – 1857 · 2 yrs
Private practice
1855 – 1857 · 2 yrs
State representative
Georgia
1853 – present · 173 yrs
Private practice
1853 – 1855 · 2 yrs
Private practice
1852 – 1853 · 1 yr
President
University of Mississippi
1849 – 1852 · 3 yrs
Professor
University of Mississippi
1849 – 1852 · 3 yrs
Private practice
1849 – 1852 · 3 yrs
Private practice
1847 – 1849 · 2 yrs
