Charles Evans Hughes
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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. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was t
Hughes in 1931
Hughes at the age of 16
Hughes with his wife and children, c. 1916
Hughes struck up a close friendship with Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Charles Evans Hughes Jr.
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Charles Evans Hughes Jr. was the United States Solicitor General from 1929 to 1930. He was the son of Supreme Court chief justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Charles Evans Hughes
…score ever awarded. In 1888, Hughes married Antoinette Carter, the daughter of the senior partner of the law firm where he worked. Their first child, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., was born the following year, and Hughes purchased a house in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood. Hughes and his wife had one son and three…
Hughes at his desk, 1929