He attended both Red Wing Seminary and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. He graduated from the law department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1906. He was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced law in Milwaukee and Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 1908 to 1910.
He studied at both Red Wing Seminary and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1906, he completed his studies in the law department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was licensed to practice law that same year and worked as a lawyer in Milwaukee and Eau Claire, Wisconsin from 1908 to 1910.