[4] He became a lawyer for the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1939 and was general counsel of the Office of Defense Transportation from 1942 to 1945.

[3] Active in Chicago civics, he was considered an ally of Mayor Richard J.

[3] He had served on the board of Catholic Charities of Chicago and was a trustee of John Marshall Law School, which gave him a J.D.

D. in 1963, and of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ill.[3] At the time of his death, he was a member of the Chicago Transit Authority Board.

[3] He died at the residence of one of his daughters in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, Illinois.