Horace H. Lurton #61 (1844-1914) & Charles Evans Hughes #62 (1862-1948)

Board #189a - 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 was also nominated to the Court by President Taft. His stay, too, was brief. As he resigned after 5 ½ years to pursue the presidency which alluded him. He reappeared years later as Chief Justice in 1930 nominated to that post by President Herbert Hoover. The man just looked Presidential.

BOARD NUMBER: 180

Offered For: $5200.