• District Court, D. South Dakota

  Judge

  1890 – 1896 · 6 yrsAppointed by Benjamin Harrison

Career

• Private practice

  Mitchell, Dakota Territory

  1885 – 1889 · 4 yrs

• U.S. senator from Minnesota

  1881 – present · 145 yrs

• Judge

  U.S. District Court, Dakota Territory

  1881 – 1885 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1878 – 1881 · 3 yrs

• State representative

  Minnesota

  1877 – 1878 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1874 – 1877 · 3 yrs

• Railroad commissioner

  State of Minnesota

  1871 – 1874 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1867 – 1871 · 4 yrs

• U.S. Army

  1861 – 1867 · 6 yrs

• State senator

  Minnesota

  1858 – 1859 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1855 – 1861 · 6 yrs

Education