Accomplished the first railroad end-to-end merger in the United States, combining Chessie System and Seaboard Coastline railroads to form the present CSX Corporation, while acting as chief legal officer of Chessie System Railroads in Cleveland, Ohio where he served as senior vice president of law and casualty prevention; president, managing partner and general counsel of various real estate companies; vice president, secretary and general counsel of Standard Brands, Inc. (1971-76); director of policy planning at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-71); law clerk for the then-New York supreme court justice Charles Breitel (1963-64); worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City (1957-63, 64-69); chief legal officer aboard a heavy cruiser, The Baltimore, which represented the United States at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; later separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant.