"Supreme Court Justice" Charles Hughes Signed TLS Dated 1907 COA For Sale

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"Supreme Court Justice" Charles Hughes Signed TLS Dated 1907 COA:
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sale "Supreme Court Justice" Charles Hughes Signed TLS Dated

1907.  This piece is certified by Todd Mueller sales and comes with

their Certificate of Authenticity.  

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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April

11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician and jurist

who served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from

1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he

was also the 36th Governor of New York,

the Republican nominee for president of the United election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. Born to

a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York,

Hughes graduated from Brown University and Columbia Law School and

practiced law 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 invitation to serve as Secretary

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

which was designed to prevent a naval arms race among the United States,

the United Kingdom, 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

him 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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