He was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church beginning at eighteen years of age.

[1] During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy in the Southwest Pacific.

He worked under President Harry Truman in establishment of the Admiral Nimitz Commission on Internal Security and Civil Rights in 1950 and 1951.

[1] He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1950, and practiced law in Wheat Ridge, Colorado from 1953 to 1964.

[4] He died of an incurable spinal column disease at his home in Westminster, Colorado on September 15, 1973.