He helped create the Washington Metro and sponsored legislation eliminating the loyalty oath requirement for college students applying for a federal grant.

He served in the United States Army from 1943 until separated from the service as a first lieutenant in 1946 (he continued serving as a captain, Judge Advocate General Corps, United States Army Reserve).

He rose to chairman of the Connecticut Personnel Appeals Board for the period 1955-1958 and was third selectman, North Haven from 1955 to 1957.

Politically, he was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth United States Congress.

During the Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth United States Congresses he acted as chairman of the House Committee on the Budget.