• District Court, D. Mississippi

  Judge

  1832 – 1836 · 4 yrsAppointed by Andrew Jackson

Career

• Private practice

  1842 – present · 184 yrs

• Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Mexico

  U.S. Department of State

  1837 – 1842 · 5 yrs

• Charge d'affaires to Mexico

  U.S. Department of State

  1836 – 1836

• U.S. senator from Mississippi

  1827 – 1832 · 5 yrs

• U.S. senator from Mississippi

  1825 – present · 201 yrs

• Judge

  Mississippi Supreme Court

  1818 – 1825 · 7 yrs

• Justice

  Mississippi Supreme Court

  1817 – 1818 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1816 – present · 210 yrs

• Private practice

  1816 – 1817 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1815 – 1816 · 1 yr

• Prevost Guards of Virginia lieutenant

  1814 – present · 212 yrs

• Private practice

  1813 – 1814 · 1 yr

Education