Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes | |
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11th Chief Justice of the United States | |
In office February 13, 1930[1] – June 30, 1941 | |
Nominated by | Herbert Hoover |
Preceded by | William Howard Taft |
Succeeded by | Harlan F. Stone |
44th United States Secretary of State | |
In office March 5, 1921 – March 4, 1925 | |
President | Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge |
Preceded by | Bainbridge Colby |
Succeeded by | Frank B. Kellogg |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
In office October 10, 1910 – June 10, 1916 | |
Nominated by | William Howard Taft |
Preceded by | David Josiah Brewer |
Succeeded by | John Hessin Clarke |
36th Governor of New York | |
In office January 1, 1907 – October 6, 1910 | |
Lieutenant | Lewis Chanler (1907–1909) Horace White (1909–1910) |
Preceded by | Frank W. Higgins |
Succeeded by | Horace White |
Personal details | |
Born | Glens Falls, New York, U.S. | April 11, 1862
Died | August 27, 1948 Barnstable, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 86)
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Antoinette Carter Hughes |
Children | 4 |
Alma mater | Madison University, Brown University, Columbia University |
Profession | Politician, Lawyer, Professor, Judge. |
Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York.
He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), a judge on the Court of International Justice (1928–1930), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing narrowly to Woodrow Wilson.
Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a supporter of Britain's New Liberalism,[2] an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.[2] Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.[3]
On August 27, 1948, Hughes died in what is now the Tiffany Cottage of the Wianno Club near Barnstable, Massachusetts. His remains are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.[4]
More reading
[change | change source]- Hall, Kermit L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-19-505835-6; ISBN 978-0-19-505835-2.
- Martin, Fenton S. and Goehlert, Robert U., The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography, (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1990). ISBN 0-87187-554-3.
- Perkins, Dexter, Charles Evans Hughes and American democratic statesmanship (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956).
- Pusey, Merlo J., Charles Evans Hughes, 2 vol. (New York: Macmillan, 1951).. the standard scholarly biography
- Shesol, Jeff. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court (W.W. Norton, 2010)
- Simon, James F., FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal (Simon & Schuster, Forthcoming, February 2012).
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Federal Judicial Center: Charles Evans Hughes". 2009-12-12. Archived from the original on 2009-05-14. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America". Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ Clinton Rossiter, Conservatism in America (1962) p. 174
- ↑ "Christensen, George A. (1983) Here Lies the Supreme Court: Gravesites of the Justices, Yearbook". Supreme Court Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2005-09-03. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
Other websites
[change | change source] Media related to Charles Evans Hughes at Wikimedia Commons
- Grave of Charles Evans Hughes at Find a Grave
- The Hughes Court at Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Supreme Court Historical Society.
- "Charles Evans Hughes, Presidential Contender" Archived 2013-11-10 at the Wayback Machine from C-SPAN's The Contenders
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