[1] He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina on August 6, 1860,[2] and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880.

[3] He resigned during his second term in the South Carolina Senate to become a state trial court judge.

[4] He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court.

[4] He died on January 15, 1921, in Washington, D.C.; he had been travelling from Baltimore, Maryland to Spartanburg, South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip.

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