Upon graduation he entered Yale Law School, where he continued until the autumn of 1829, when he was admitted to the bar in his native city.
Senator Nathan Smith, then at the head of the profession, and at once stepped into a large and valuable practice.
He mingled also assiduously in politics, and perhaps the asperities of such conflicts acting on a nervous temperament tended to unsettle his mind.
In 1832 and again in 1833 he represented New Haven in the Connecticut General Assembly, and in the latter year was appointed Executive Secretary of Governor Henry W. Edwards.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1883 Yale Obituary Record.