He was employed as a research physicist by Allis Chalmers and served as a member of the executive committee of the Milwaukee 18th Ward Republican Club.
After an easy victory in his party's primary (3,462 votes to 890 for Louis J. Ceci and 228 for Walter Sukowatey), he defeated Democrat Alfred Marcell by 8,567 to 7.504 in the general election (Democratic incumbent Ralph Landowski was not a candidate for reelection).
[2] While he won his party primary in 1958 (he was perceived as a "liberal Republican" and opposed by Ida Mae Zimmerman, described as of the "Old Guard", whom he beat by over 2:1),[3] he was defeated by Democrat Robert M. Curley by 6,846 to 5,318 in the general election.
[4] After leaving the Assembly, he worked at one time for the United States Postal Service.
He died December 30, 2010, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin after some years in an assisted living facility.