• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1971 – 1998 · 27 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

• District Court, D. South Carolina

  Judge

  1966 – 1971 · 5 yrsAppointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Career

• U.S. senator from South Carolina

  1965 – 1966 · 1 yr

• Governor

  South Carolina

  1963 – 1965 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1957 – 1963 · 6 yrs

• President

  University of South Carolina

  1951 – 1957 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1947 – 1951 · 4 yrs

• Deputy director

  Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion

  1945 – present · 81 yrs

• Assistant secretary of state

  1945 – 1947 · 2 yrs

• U.S. Army major

  1944 – present · 82 yrs

• assistant to director of war mobilization

  1943 – present · 83 yrs

• Price Adjustment Board

  U.S. Department of War

  1942 – 1943 · 1 yr

• assistant director of economic stabilization

  1942 – present · 84 yrs

• Private practice

  1930 – 1942 · 12 yrs

• Private practice

  1929 – 1930 · 1 yr