[1] After graduating, he then worked in the Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal and then as chief justice of Åsbo Northern Hundred from 1892 to 1898.

From 1898 to 1902 he was the parliamentary ombudsman, after which he became minister of justice from 1902[2] to 1905 in Erik Gustaf Boström's second cabinet.

[2] In 1904 he presented a bill that would make the state obliged to provide assistance to the detainees if they requested.

He was non-partisan in 1907, belonged to the upper house's moderate party from 1908 to 1911 and finally described himself as liberal but politically unaffiliated in 1912.

He pushed for Sweden's accession to the Berne Convention, and had the controversial voting rights issue on his table, but was unable to push for universal and equal voting rights for men in elections to the second chamber because the liberals opposed proportionality.