• District Court, W.D. North Carolina

  Judge

  1872 – 1898 · 26 yrsAppointed by Ulysses S. Grant

Career

• Associate justice

  Supreme Court of North Carolina

  1868 – 1872 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1865 – 1868 · 3 yrs

• Received recess appointment to U.S. District Courts for the Albemarle

  Cape Fear and Pamptico Districts of North Carolina, May 29

  1865 – present · 161 yrs

• State senator

  North Carolina

  1864 – 1865 · 1 yr

• Member

  North Carolina Council of State

  1862 – 1864 · 2 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Albemarle

  Cape Fear, and Pamptico Districts of North Carolina

  1853 – 1861 · 8 yrs

• Private practice

  1848 – 1853 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1845 – 1848 · 3 yrs