[1] Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, Waterman was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1871.
[2] After working for a time as a city attorney, Waterman was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1877, and on June 28, 1887, was appointed by Governor William Larrabee to a seat on the Iowa Seventh Judicial Circuit.
Waterman was reelected to the seat in November of that year, and again in 1890 and 1894.
[3] In 1898, he was elected to the state supreme court, serving until 1902, when he left to return to private practice.
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