[1][2] In the Supreme Court of the United States' 1931 term, Rose served as the final law clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[2] Rose's first job after passing the Ohio bar was at the Cleveland, Ohio-based law firm Tolles Hogsett & Ginn, where he eventually became a partner.
[1][3] In 1946, President Harry S. Truman appointed Rose the director of the Office of Contract Settlement in the United States Department of War.
He subsequently worked at the law firm Jones Day Cockley & Reavis, where he was a partner in their Cleveland office from 1949 to 1953, when he was named assistant undersecretary of the Treasury by President Eisenhower.
[2] Rose was long active in supporting the Republican Party in Ohio, and donated over $10,000 to the 1972 reelection campaign of President Richard Nixon.
The elder Rose died of emphysema at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 1990.