• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1881 – 1889 · 8 yrsAppointed by James A. Garfield

Career

• U.S. senator from Ohio

  1877 – 1881 · 4 yrs

• Counsel for Rutherford B. Hayes before congressional electoral commission

  1876 – present · 150 yrs

• Private practice

  1865 – 1877 · 12 yrs

• Judge

  Superior Court of Cincinnati Ohio

  1863 – 1865 · 2 yrs

• Fifty-First Ohio Volunteers colonel

  1862 – 1863 · 1 yr

• Twenty-Third Ohio Infantry lieutenant colonel

  1861 – 1862 · 1 yr

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio

  1858 – 1861 · 3 yrs

• State senator

  Ohio

  1855 – 1857 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1853 – 1858 · 5 yrs

• Judge

  Hamilton County Ohio Court of Common Pleas

  1851 – 1853 · 2 yrs

• Clerk

  Ohio General Assembly

  1848 – 1851 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1844 – 1851 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1842 – 1844 · 2 yrs

• Editor

  Tennessee Democrat

  1842 – 1844 · 2 yrs

Education