• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1927 – 1946 · 19 yrsAppointed by Calvin Coolidge

Career

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia

  1922 – 1927 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  West Virginia

  1915 – 1922 · 7 yrs

• to Nicaragua

  1911 – present · 115 yrs

• to Venezuela

  1911 – 1913 · 2 yrs

• Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary

  U.S. Department of State

  1909 – 1913 · 4 yrs

• to Columbia

  1909 – 1911 · 2 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia

  1905 – 1909 · 4 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of West Virginia

  1898 – 1905 · 7 yrs

• City attorney

  1897 – 1898 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  West Virginia

  1891 – present · 135 yrs