Justice Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948), Willis Van Devanter #63
Justice Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948), Willis Van Devanter #63
Charles Evans Hughes #62
Charles Evans Hughes #62 Justice Hughes was nominated as an associate Justice. He was accepted by the Senate in 1910 and took his seat. In 1916 he resigned his seat to run for President. He lost. In 1930, 14 years later he was nominated by President Hoover as Chief Justice and became the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948)
11th Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes #62 autograph’s a letter dated December 7, 1907 little realizing that date was to become a date FDR said would go down as a date in infamy. The letter was written by the Chief Justice while he was Governor of New York and before he relinquished his seat on the Supreme Court as Associate Justice to run, and lose, a bid for President
Horace H. Lurton #61 (1844-1914) & Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948)
Horace H. Lurton #61 (1844-1914) Lurton was nominated to the court by William Howard Taft.
He also nominated Charles Evans hughes #62 (1862-1948) Lurton was from Kentucky, attended Cumberland Law and served in the Confederate States of America. He was captured twice and often told a white lie that Lincoln paroled him because of fervent pleas from his mother. Lurton served but a short time on the Court and died after 4 years of service of a heart attack. His autograph is a hard find. Besides what was he doing in Atlantic City, NJ when he died….gambling wasn’t yet legal there.
Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948)
Charles Evans Hughes was selected by William Howard Taft to be the 62nd Justice of the Supreme Court. He was approved by acclamation. So he became Justice of the Supreme Court on October 10, 1910. Six years later this Justice resigned in an effort to become President. Hughes lost this attempt.
#215 - Charles Evans Hughes #62(1862-1948), Willis Van Devanter #63 (1859-1941)
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Justice Charles Evans Hughes #62 & Justice Owen Roberts #74
This board presents two men both of whom are Associate Justices. It also includes two letters one signed by Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes #62 in November, 1906 four years before he us nominated to the Supreme Court by President Taft as an Associate Justice.
The other letter is written by Justice Owen Roberts #74 on stationary of Montgomery , McCracken, Walker, and Rhoads a Law Firm in Philadelphia on April 1, 1946, a year after he resigned from the United States Supreme Court.