[2] He was re-elected in 1946, serving for eight years in total before his election to the Indiana Supreme Court.
[4] Draper was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1950, taking office on January 2, 1951.
[2] Richard M. Givan, later Chief Justice of the court, was a law clerk for Draper.
[4] Givan remembered Draper as being "on the conservative side" among the judges, particularly in taking "a harder line with criminals".
[2] In July 1955, Alfred died in a fall from a sixth-floor window in Gary, Indiana.