sentences:  He was the chairman of the Republican executive committee of Fayette County, Kentucky from 1928 to 1931, and was appointed and subsequently elected a judge of the circuit court of the twenty-second judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1931 to 1940.He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1935 and 1939.He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1944 and chairman of the Republican State convention in 1936.