Charles Evans Hughes
American jurist; Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 (1862-1948) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 86
Charles Evans Hughes was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941.
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Woodrow Wilson 2 moreCandidate1910Named Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesOffice10 October 1910 to 10 June 19161907Named Governor of New YorkOffice1 January 1907 to 6 October 19101862Born11 April 1862People around Charles
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Hughes at the age of 16
Hughes with his wife and children, c. 1916
Gubernatorial portrait of Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes struck up a close friendship with Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Hughes in Winona, Minnesota, during the 1916 presidential campaign campaigning on the Olympian
Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Oscar Straus, and other distinguished citizens pledge their support to Mayor John Purroy Mitchel on the steps of New York City Hall, October 1, 1917
Hughes's residence in 1921, on the 1500 block of 18th St NW.About this person
A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th governor of New York (1907-1910), an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910-1916), and 44th U.S. secretary of state (1921-1925). He was the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, narrowly losing to incumbent president Woodrow Wilson.
