Charles Evans Hughes

**Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.** (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician from New York.

Hughes served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), a 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). The Republican Party's candidate in the 1916 presidential election, he lost narrowly to the Democratic Party's cndidate, Woodrow Wilson.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, 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 a well-known swing voter in dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s. The historian Clinton Rossiter hailed him as a leading American conservative.

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 The Bronx, New York City.

## More reading

- Hall, Kermit L., ed. _The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States_. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1992. ; .
- Martin, Fenton S. and Goehlert, Robert U., _The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography_, (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1990). .
- 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).

## Other websites

- Grave of Charles Evans Hughes at Find a Grave
- The Hughes Court at  Supreme Court Historical Society.
- "Charles Evans Hughes, Presidential Contender"  from C-SPAN's _The Contenders_

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Charles Evans Hughes
- **image**: Charles Evans Hughes cph.3b15401 (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 240px
- **order**: Chief Justice of the United States#List of chief justices, 11th Chief Justice of the United States
- **term start**: February 13, 1930
- **term end**: June 30, 1941
- **nominator**: Herbert Hoover
- **predecessor**: William Howard Taft
- **successor**: Harlan F. Stone
- **order2**: 44th United States Secretary of State
- **term start2**: March 5, 1921
- **term end2**: March 4, 1925
- **president2**: Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
- **predecessor2**: Bainbridge Colby
- **successor2**: Frank B. Kellogg
- **order3**: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- **term start3**: October 10, 1910
- **term end3**: June 10, 1916
- **nominator3**: William Howard Taft
- **predecessor3**: David Josiah Brewer
- **successor3**: John Hessin Clarke
- **order4**: 36th Governor of New York
- **term start4**: January 1, 1907
- **term end4**: October 6, 1910
- **lieutenant4**: Lewis S. Chanler, Lewis Chanler (1907–1909)
 Horace White (1909–1910)
- **predecessor4**: Frank W. Higgins
- **successor4**: Horace White
- **birth place**: Glens Falls, New York, United States, U.S.
- **death place**: Barnstable, Massachusetts, U.S.
- **party**: Republican Party (United States), Republican
- **spouse**: Antoinette Carter Hughes
- **children**: 4
- **profession**: Politician, Lawyer, Professor, Judge.
- **alma mater**: Colgate University, Madison University,
Brown University,
Columbia University