Private practice, Louisa, Kentucky, 1911-1917, 1919-1924
City attorney, Louisa, Kentucky, 1913
U.S. Army private and officer trainee, 1917-1919
Commonwealth attorney, Thirty-Second Judicial District, Kentucky, 1921-1924
U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1923-1929, 1931-1938
Private practice, Ashland, Kentucky, 1929-1931
Chief judge, U.S. Emergency Court of Appeals, 1942-1943
Director, Office of Economic Stabilization, 1943-1945
Administrator, Federal Loan Administration, 1945
Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945
Secretary of the Treasury, 1945-1946
The mission of the North Carolina Central University School of Law is to provide a challenging and broad-based educational program designed to stimulate intellectual inquiry of the highest order, and to foster in each student a deep sense of professional responsibility and personal integrity so as to produce competent and socially responsible members of the legal profession.
Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Fourth Circuit, June 26, 1946-September 8, 1953
District of Columbia Circuit, June 26, 1946-September 8, 1953