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.Clinton Rossiter, Conservatism in America (1962) p. 174

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).

References

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

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