He moved to Indian Territory, read the law under Wade H. Kornegay in Vinita, and was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1901.

He moved to Nowata the next year and was elected mayor in April 1903 where he served until 1906.

He was a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention representing the 58th district.

He operated a private practice in Tulsa between 1921 and 1931, when he was appointed by William H. Murray to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

He left office in 1935 to work as an examiner and attorney for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington D.C. and died in Tulsa on August 1, 1942.