Hugo Black #76 (1886-1971)

Hugo was the first appointment for Franklin Delano Roosevelt so he picked a difficult passage. However, it turned out not to be all that difficult as Black passed muster 63/16. The block on Black was expected to come from the fact back had been a member of the Klan, but since he was from the south everyone knew that to be elected to any office it had to have a Klan Member or no election’ Black himself candidly acknowledged without Klan membership he would never have become a Senator. Alabama is the deep south..