• District Court, S.D. Illinois

  Judge

  1888 – 1901 · 13 yrsAppointed by Grover Cleveland

Career

• Private practice

  1886 – 1887 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1874 – 1886 · 12 yrs

• Private practice

  1865 – 1874 · 9 yrs

• U.S. representative from Illinois

  1862 – 1865 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  Illinois Circuit Court, Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit

  1859 – 1861 · 2 yrs

• State senator

  Illinois

  1855 – present · 171 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois

  1855 – 1859 · 4 yrs

• Prosecuting attorney

  1853 – 1854 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1853 – 1862 · 9 yrs

• Enrolling and engrossing clerk

  Illinois state legislature

  1851 – present · 175 yrs

• Enrolling and engrossing clerk

  Illinois state legislature

  1849 – present · 177 yrs

• Private practice

  1849 – 1853 · 4 yrs