He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Gadsden, Alabama, in 1929.

He served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives 1941–1944.

Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education, he voted against H.R.

He was a resident of Gadsden, Alabama, until his death there on March 22, 1991.

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