Private practice, Union, South Carolina, 1929-1930
Private practice, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1930-1942, 1947-1951, 1957-1963
Price Adjustment Board, U.S. Department of War, 1942-1943; assistant director of economic stabilization, 1942; assistant to director of war mobilization, 1943
U.S. Army major, 1944
Deputy director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945
Assistant secretary of state, 1945-1947
President, University of South Carolina, 1951-1957
Governor, South Carolina, 1963-1965
U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1965-1966
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