Hughes, Charles Evans

Born April 11, 1862, in Glens Falls, NY
Died August 27, 1948, in Washington, DC

Federal Judicial Service:
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nominated by William H. Taft on April 25, 1910, to a seat vacated by David J. Brewer. Confirmed by the Senate on May 2, 1910, and received commission on May 2, 1910. Service terminated on June 10, 1916, due to resignation.

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nominated by Herbert Hoover on February 3, 1930, to a seat vacated by William H. Taft. Confirmed by the Senate on February 13, 1930, and received commission on February 13, 1930. Assumed senior status on June 30, 1941. Service terminated on August 27, 1948, due to death.

Supreme Court Oath:
October 10, 1910 (Associate Justice) and February 24, 1930 (Chief Justice)

Allotment as Circuit Justice:

Second Circuit, January 9, 1911-June 10, 1916
Fourth Circuit, March 12, 1930-June 30, 1941
District of Columbia Circuit, December 19, 1938-June 30, 1941

Education:
Brown University, A.B., 1881
Read law, 1882
Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1884

Professional Career:

Private practice, New York City, 1884-1891, 1893-1906, 1916-1921, 1925-1930
Faculty, Cornell Law School, 1891-1895; professor of law, 1891-1893; special lecturer, 1893-1895
Special lecturer, New York University Law School, 1893-1900
Counsel, Stevens Gas Commission, New York Legislature, 1905
Counsel, Armstrong Insurance Commission, New York Legislature, 1905-1906
Special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1906
Governor, New York, 1907-1910
Republican candidate for president of the United States, 1916
Secretary of State, 1921-1925
Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 1926-1930
Presiding officer, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States), 1929-1941

Bibliography

Chaffee, Zechariah, Jr. “Charles Evans Hughes.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 93, no. 3 (Jun. 10, 1949): 267-81.

Fish, Peter G. “William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes: Conservative Politicians as Judicial Reformers.” Supreme Court Review, vol. 1975 (1975): 123-45.

Freund, Paul A. “Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice.” Harvard Law Review, vol. 81, no. 1 (Nov. 1967): 4-43.

Gavit, John Palmer. Charles Evans Hughes, The Man: Side-Lights Upon the Personality of the Former Governor of New York. New York: The Nation Press, 1916.

Glad, Betty. Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence: A Study in Diplomacy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1966.

Gossett, William T. “The Human Side of Chief Justice Hughes,” American Bar Association Journal, vol. 59, no. 12 (Dec. 1973): 1413-9.

Guthrie, William D. “Charles Evans Hughes.” American Bar Association Journal, vol. 15, no. 5 (May 1929): 266-69.

Hendel, Samuel. Charles Evans Hughes and the Supreme Court. New York: Russell, 1968.

________. “The Liberalism of Chief Justice Hughes.” Vanderbilt Law Review, vol. 10, no. 2 (Feb. 1957): 259-68.

Henretta, James A. “Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America.” Law and History Review, vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 115-71.

Hughes, Charles Evans, Joseph L. Tulchin, and David J. Danelski. The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Huthmacher, J. Joseph. “Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Francis Murphy: The Metamorphosis of Progressivism.” New York History, vol. 46, no. 1 (Jan. 1965): 25-40.

Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage: Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955.

Perkins, Dexter. Charles Evans Hughes and American Democratic Statesmanship. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Powell, Thomas Reed. “Charles Evans Hughes.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 2 (Jun. 1952): 161-172.

Pusey, Merlo J. Charles Evans Hughes, Vol. One. New York: MacMillan, 1951.

________. Charles Evans Hughes, Vol. Two. New York: MacMillan, 1952.

Ross, William G. The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes: 1930-1941. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Stone, Irving. They also Ran: The Story of the Men who were Defeated for the Presidency. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.

Thwing, Charles Franklin. “William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes.” Phi Beta Kappa Key, vol. 7, no. 7 (March 1930): 456-8.

Wesser, Robert F. Charles Evans Hughes: Politics and Reform in New York, 1905-1910. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Manuscript Collections

Brown University
John Hay Archives
Providence, R.I.
Charles Evans Hughes papers, 1878-1945.
110 items; collection contains correspondence, college notebooks, and memorabilia.

Columbia University
New York, N.Y.
Charles Evans Hughes papers, 1914-1930.
32,000 items; finding aid; collection contains correspondence, writings, reports, documents, and printed material; there is a gap in most files (March 1921-March 1925) when Hughes was secretary of state.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Charles Evans Hughes papers, 1836-1950.
101 ft. (61,000 items); finding aid; collection contains correspondence, clippings, financial papers, memoranda, minutes, pamphlets, periodicals, press releases, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, statistical data, and treaty drafts related to Hughes's tenure as governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of State, and associate justice and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, Mass.
Charles Evans Hughes correspondence, 1908.
3 letters between Hughes and Frederick Hazard concerning the 1908 Republican convention, the need to reform the office of the vice president, economic trends, Hughes's governorship of New York, and his role in exposing insurance malpractice in New York.

New York Public Library
New York, N.Y.
Charles Evans Hughes papers, ca. 1904-ca. 1911.
2 linear ft.; finding aid; speeches, articles, memoranda, subject files, printed matter, and photographs.

Syracuse University
Department of Special Collections
Syracuse, N.Y.
Charles Evans Hughes letters, 1894-1934.
67 items; finding aid; collection contains outgoing correspondence and 2 incoming letters.

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