He was district attorney for Somerset County, Pennsylvania, from 1853 to 1856.

He served as prothonotary and clerk of the county court from 1861 to 1868.

He successfully contested as a Republican the election of Alexander H. Coffroth to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

He resumed the practice of law at Somerset and served as counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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