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CHARLES EVANS
HUGHES was born in Glens Falls, New York, on April 11,
1862. He was graduated in 1881 from Brown University and
received a law degree from Columbia University in 1884.
For the next twenty years, he practiced law in New York,
New York, with only a three-year break to teach law at
Cornell University. Hughes was elected Governor of New
York in 1905 and re-elected two years later. On April
25, 1910, President William H. Taft nominated Hughes to
the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Senate
confirmed the appointment on May 2, 1910. Hughes resigned
from the Court in 1916 upon being nominated by the Republican
Party to run for president. After losing the election
to Woodrow Wilson, he returned to his law practice in
New York. Hughes served as Secretary of State from 1921
to 1925. He subsequently resumed his law practice while
serving in the Hague as a United States delegate to the
Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1926 to 1930. On February
3, 1930, President Herbert Hoover nominated Hughes Chief
Justice of the United States, and the Senate confirmed
the appointment on February 13, 1930. He served as Chairman
of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1930
to 1941. Hughes retired on July 1, 1941, after serving
eleven years as Chief Justice. He died on August 27, 1948,
at the age of eighty-six. |
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