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Hughes, Charles Evans

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Hughes, Charles Evans (1862-1948)

US jurist and public official, appointed to the US Supreme Court by President William Howard Taft in 1910. He resigned in 1916 to accept the Republican nomination for president, losing narrowly to the incumbent Woodrow Wilson. He served as secretary of state 1921-25 under President Warren Gamaliel Harding. As Supreme Court chief justice 1930-41, he presided over the constitutional tests of President Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal legislation.

Hughes, born in Glens Falls, New York, received his law degree from Columbia University in 1884. After joining the Columbia law faculty 1891-93, he directed a state investigation of public utilities in 1905 and served two terms as New York governor 1906-10. He retired from the US Supreme Court in 1941.



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