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Charles Evans Hughes

Overview

  • Born
    April 11, 1862 · Glens Falls, New York, USA
  • Died
    August 27, 1948 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Height
    5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

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  • Charles Evans Hughes is an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. In 1930, President Herbert Hoover appointed Hughes to succeed Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Along with Associate Justice Owen Roberts, Hughes emerged as a key vote on the bench.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast

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  • Spouse
      Ellen Antoinette Carter(December 5, 1888 - December 6, 1945) (her death, 4 children)

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  • Chief Justice of the United States, 13 February 1930-30 June 1941. Resigned from office.
  • U.S. secretary of state, 5 March 1921-4 March 1925.
  • Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 2 May 1910-10 June 1916. Resigned from office.
  • Governor of the state of New York, 1 January 1907-6 October 1910.
  • 1916 Republican Party candidate for president; lost to Woodrow Wilson.

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