Education
A native of Downey, Idaho, he graduated from Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and the George Washington University Law School.
A native of Downey, Idaho, he graduated from Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and the George Washington University Law School.
In 1928 he joined the Federal Radio Commission, the predecessor of the F.C.C.
His reappointment by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, was the first time that a chairman of the commission was reappointed and the first time a President named a chairman from a different political party.