\"Supreme Court Chief Justice\" Charles Hughes Signed TLS Dated 1936 For Sale

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\"Supreme Court Chief Justice\" Charles Hughes Signed TLS Dated 1936:
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Up for sale "Supreme Court Chief Justice" Charles Hughes Hand Signed TLS Dated 1936. 

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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 –

August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician,

and the 11th Chief Justice of the

United States Supreme Court.

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. Born to a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes pursued a legal career in New York City. After working in private practice for several

years, in 1905 he led successful state investigations into public utilities and

the life insurance industry. He won election as the Governor of New York in

1906 and implemented several progressive reforms.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft appointed

Hughes as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

During his tenure on the Supreme Court, Hughes often joined Associate

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in

voting to uphold state and federal regulations. Hughes served as an Associate

Justice until 1916, when he resigned from the bench to accept the Republican

presidential nomination. Though Hughes was widely viewed as the favorite in the

race against Wilson, Wilson won a narrow victory. After Warren G. Harding won the 1920

presidential election, Hughes accepted Harding's offer to serve as

Secretary of State. Serving under Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Hughes negotiated the Washington Naval Treaty,

which was designed to prevent a naval arms race among the United States, Britain, and Japan. Hughes left office in 1925 and returned to private

practice, becoming one of the most prominent attorneys in the country. In 1930,

President Herbert Hoover appointed

Hughes to succeed Chief Justice Taft. Along with Associate Justice Owen Roberts, Hughes emerged as a key swing vote on the bench,

positioned between the liberal Three Musketeers and

the conservative Four Horsemen.

The Hughes Court struck

down several New Deal programs in the early and

the mid-1930s, but 1937 marked a turning point for the Supreme Court and the

New Deal as Hughes and Roberts joined with the Three Musketeers to uphold the

Wagner Act and a state minimum wage law. That same year saw the defeat of

the Judicial

Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, which would have expanded the size

of the Supreme Court. Hughes served until 1941, when he retired and was

succeeded by Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone.

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