 He graduated from St. Mary’s Institute in Dayton, Ohio, in 1913, and the University of Dayton in 1919.He attended the law department of the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1920 to 1923.He was engaged as a teacher in parochial schools in Dayton from 1910 to 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1913 to 1916, and in the Duquesne University Prep School in Pittsburgh from 1918 to 1923.