• United States Court of Claims

  Judge

  1885 – 1896 · 11 yrsAppointed by Chester Arthur

• United States Court of Claims

  Judge

  1874 – 1885 · 11 yrsAppointed by Ulysses S. Grant

Career

• Professor of law

  Georgetown Law School

  1879 – 1894 · 15 yrs

• Editor

  Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States

  1874 – 1891 · 17 yrs

• Secretary of the Treasury

  1873 – 1874 · 1 yr

• Acting attorney general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1870 – present · 156 yrs

• Assistant secretary of the treasury

  1869 – 1872 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  Middlesex County Massachusetts Probate and Insolvency Courts

  1858 – 1872 · 14 yrs

• Judge

  Middlesex County Massachusetts Probate Court

  1856 – 1858 · 2 yrs

• Bank president

  1852 – 1853 · 1 yr

• Justice of the peace

  1847 – 1854 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1846 – present · 180 yrs

Education