• District Court, D. Kentucky

  Judge

  1834 – 1861 · 27 yrsAppointed by Andrew Jackson

Career

• Private practice

  1862 – present · 164 yrs

• Delegate from Kentucky

  Provisional Confederate Congress

  1861 – 1862 · 1 yr

• Chairman

  Law Department, Transylvania University

  1848 – present · 178 yrs

• Professor of law

  Tulane University

  1848 – present · 178 yrs

• Law teacher

  1843 – 1848 · 5 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the District of Kentucky

  1830 – 1834 · 4 yrs

• Reporter

  Kentucky Court of Appeals

  1825 – present · 201 yrs

• Secretary of state

  Commonwealth of Kentucky

  1823 – 1824 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1821 – present · 205 yrs

• State representative

  Kentucky

  1816 – present · 210 yrs

Education