Honors:

Representative Missouri Legislature 1931 - 1932.

United States Congressman, St. Louis, Missouri 1941 - 1949.

United States Ambassador to Paraguay 1957 - 1959 and to Costa Rica 1970 - 1972.

Sovereign Grand Inspector General in Missouri,Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction.

The first Senior DeMolay to become theGrand Master of the Order of DeMolay 1952.

Legion of Honor 1927.

Initiated into St. Louis Chapter, St. Louis, Missouri in 1923.