• District Court, D. Indiana

  Judge

  1864 – 1864Appointed by Abraham Lincoln

Career

• Commissioner to settle claims resulting from the Sioux Indian Massacre

  1863 – present · 163 yrs

• U.S. representative from Indiana

  1861 – 1863 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1845 – 1861 · 16 yrs

• U.S. senator from Indiana

  1839 – 1845 · 6 yrs

• U.S. representative from Indiana

  1837 – 1839 · 2 yrs

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

  1832 – present · 194 yrs

• Clerk

  Indiana House of Representatives

  1832 – 1835 · 3 yrs

• Assistant clerk

  Indiana House of Representatives

  1830 – 1831 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1829 – 1836 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  New York

  1825 – 1829 · 4 yrs

Education