He became a medical examiner for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and prothonotary of Chester County in 1886.

He chaired the Senate Appropriations and Health and Sanitation committees and served on committees for Congressional Apportionment, Corporations, Education, Finance, Insurance, Judiciary Special, New Counties and New Seats, Mines and Mining, Public Roads and Highways, Railroads and Street Passenger Railways.

[1][2][4] Snyder was elected Pennsylvania Auditor General in November 1903, winning by a margin of 237,602 votes.

Although he maintained his innocence until his death, Snyder was convicted in December 1908, sentenced to two years in prison at the Eastern State Penitentiary, and ordered to pay a $500 fine.

[7] He was interred at the East Village Reformed Cemetery in Spring City, Pennsylvania.