He would also serve as a license inspector and as assistant solicitor for Tuscaloosa County.
[1] During his time in the house he was known as an advocate of the University of Alabama, Bryce Hospital, Partlow State School, and Tuscaloosa County's labor movement.
He was also one of the legislators that passed a bill to help finance a hospital, in which he later served on its board of directors.
[1] After his service in the house, he would return to his law practice in which he would retire from in 1998, at the age of 94.
[1] A Baptist by religion, he was an avid fiddle player, and a member of a musicians' union.