He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador on February 24, 1892, and served until his resignation on June 12, 1893.

He served as member of the Foreign Trades Relation Committee of the State Department in 1919.

He was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as one of the ten Federal umpires for the War Labor Board in 1919.

He was appointed representative of the United States to the International Commission on Immigration and Emigration at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1920.

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