Complex sentence: After the war he was appointed Surveyor General for the Dakota Territory under President Andrew Johnson and he practiced law in Yankton in the Dakota Territory with his younger half-brother Bartlett Tripp, later a judge and diplomat.
Split into simpler sentences: After the war he was appointed Surveyor General for the Dakota Territory under President Andrew Johnson. He later practiced law in Yankton in the Dakota Territory with his younger half-brother Bartlett Tripp, later a judge and diplomat.