• Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  Judge

  1879 – 1884 · 5 yrsAppointed by Rutherford B. Hayes

Career

• Private practice

  1884 – 1890 · 6 yrs

• General counsel, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company

  1884 – 1890 · 6 yrs

• Secretary of War

  1877 – 1879 · 2 yrs

• U.S. representative from Iowa

  1869 – 1877 · 8 yrs

• Private practice

  1862 – 1869 · 7 yrs

• State senator

  Iowa

  1861 – 1865 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1858 – 1861 · 3 yrs

• State representative

  Iowa

  1857 – present · 169 yrs

• Private practice

  1856 – 1857 · 1 yr