sentences:  He was elected in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John E. Kenna He won re-election to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and served from May 15, 1883 to March 3, 1889.He served as a judge on the criminal court of Kanawha County from 1890 to 1896.He was named United States consul to Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico from 1897 to 1901.