• District Court, D. Mississippi

  Judge

  1818 – 1823 · 5 yrsAppointed by James Monroe

Career

• Judge

  Mississippi Superior Court

  1817 – 1818 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1814 – 1817 · 3 yrs

• Territorial legislator

  Mississippi Territory

  1813 – 1814 · 1 yr

• Attorney general

  Mississippi Territory

  1809 – present · 217 yrs

• Territorial legislator

  Mississippi Territory

  1808 – 1809 · 1 yr

• U.S. agent to adjust land claims west of the Pearl River

  1804 – present · 222 yrs

• Private practice

  1803 – 1809 · 6 yrs

• Secretary of state

  State of Delaware

  1802 – present · 224 yrs