- Democrat Congressional representative from Texas, 4 March 1917-3 March 1929. Elected U.S. senator in 1928.
- Democrat U.S. senator from Texas, 4 March1929-3 January 1953. Was not a candidate for renomination in 1952.
- Served as sergeant major in the Second Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War.
- Member and vice chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945.
- Member of the Texas state house of representatives, 1901-1904.
- Graduated from Baylor University in 1896 and from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1898.
- During the First World War, became captain and adjutant of the Twenty-second Infantry Brigade, Eleventh Division, United States Army, 1918.
- Representative of the United States to the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at London and to the second session at New York in 1946.
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