Background
Descended from an Irish Catholic family, he was educated at Georgetown University, from which he graduated in 1854.
Descended from an Irish Catholic family, he was educated at Georgetown University, from which he graduated in 1854.
Georgetown University.
He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland an associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upon the establishment of that Court in 1893. He was one of the founders of Georgetown Law School (1871), then under the direction of Philisophy F. Healy, Society of Jesus (Jesuit)
In 1877, he received from Georgetown the degree of Doctor of Laws
He continued a member of the firm Merrick and Morris until the death of Merrick (1885), when he formed a partnership with George East. Hamilton, and continued actively to practice his profession, being connected with important litigation both in the local courts and in the Supreme Court.