• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1940 – 1949 · 9 yrsAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Career

• Attorney General of the United States

  1939 – 1940 · 1 yr

• Governor

  Michigan

  1937 – 1938 · 1 yr

• Governor general and high commissioner

  Philippine Islands

  1933 – 1936 · 3 yrs

• Mayor

  1930 – 1933 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  Detroit Michigan Recorder's Court

  1923 – 1930 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1922 – 1923 · 1 yr

• Professor of law

  University of Detroit

  1922 – 1927 · 5 yrs

• Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan

  1920 – present · 106 yrs

• Chief assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of Michigan

  1919 – 1922 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army first lieutenant

  1917 – 1919 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1914 – 1917 · 3 yrs