• District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania

  Judge

  1824 – 1831 · 7 yrsAppointed by James Monroe

Career

• Private practice

  1858 – 1865 · 7 yrs

• State senator

  Pennsylvania

  1855 – 1857 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1845 – present · 181 yrs

• Secretary of War

  1844 – 1845 · 1 yr

• U.S. representative from Pennsylvania

  1843 – 1844 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1836 – 1843 · 7 yrs

• Minister to Russia

  U.S. Department of State

  1834 – 1836 · 2 yrs

• U.S. senator from Pennsylvania

  1831 – 1834 · 3 yrs

• U.S. representative from Pennsylvania

  1829 – 1830 · 1 yr

• President judge

  Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Fifth Judicial District

  1820 – 1824 · 4 yrs

• State representative

  Pennsylvania

  1819 – 1820 · 1 yr

• President

  Pittsburgh Pennsylvania City Council

  1816 – 1819 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1808 – 1815 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1806 – 1807 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1801 – 1806 · 5 yrs

Education