He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in April 1861, and was admitted to the bar the same year.

He enlisted in April 1861 in the Union Army and served successively as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel in the 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment until he mustered out in December 1864.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress and resumed his former newspaper business.

He died in Gallipolis, Ohio, on June 10, 1921, and was interred in Pine Street Cemetery.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress