He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington, receiving the A.B., 1912 and then got his law degree from the law school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, LL.B., 1916.

He was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced the practice of law in Barbourville, Kentucky, the same year.

He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952.

He died in Pineville, Kentucky, September 6, 1971.

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