sentences:  He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1881 and from the law school there in 1882.He was prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Missouri from 1885–1889.He became first assistant city counselor of Kansas City in 1890; mayor of Kansas City in 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1905).