He "attended Southwestern University in Georgetown from 1889 to 1891 and Bingham School in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1892–93", gaining admission to the State Bar of Texas in 1895.

He was a major in the judge advocate general's department of the United States Army in Governors Island, New York, from October 1918 to April 1919.

[1]He thereafter practice law in Dallas and became involved in party politics, becoming a Democratic National Committee member for Texas,[2] from 1924 to 1934.

[1] On May 17, 1933, he was appointed to the Board of Tax Appeals by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fill the unexpired term of William D. Love, who had died in April of that year.

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