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Charles Evans Hughes COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Regi s t e r of Papers Processed: MA Bate: 1/23/56 CHARLES EVAiMS HUUHES (1862 - 194S) The papers of Charles u-vans Hughes, lawyer, professor, Governor of New York State, Associate Justice, then Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Secretary of State, were presented to the Library of Congress in 1952 by Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. Measure of size: Approximate number of items: 239 containers including 41 volumes, scrapbooks of clippings Until further notice, the Hughes papers may be used only by permission of Mrs. Chauncey L. (Catherine Hughes) Waddell or Mrs, William T. (Elizabeth Hughes) Gossett. (The Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System has permission). A press release on the papers appeared June 6, 1952 and an acquisition note appeared in the Information Bulletin on June 16, 1952. Charles Evens Hughes II - 2 Biographical Note 1862, Apr. 11 Born, ulens Falls, N. I. 1881 A.B., Brown University I884. A.M., Brovn University 1384. LL.B., Columbia Univ.; and admitted to N.Y. bar 1884.-87 Prize fellowship, Columbia Law School 1388, Dec. 5 Married Antoinette Carter (dec.) (4. children) 1884-91 Practiced law in flew York ) 1893-1906 ) 1891-95 Professor of lav, then special lecturer, Cornell J. 1893-1900 Special lecturer, New lork Law School 1905 Nominated for Mayor of New York (Republican), but declined Counsel, Stevens Gas Commission and Armstrong Insurance Commission (M, X. Legislature) Special assistant to U.S. Attorney General, coal 1905-06 1906 investigation 1907-10 Governor of New York, tvo terms 1910-16 Associate Justice of Supreme Court of U. Su 1916 Nomine.ted (Republican) for President of the U. S., defeated by Woodrow Wilson Member firm, Hugnes, Rounds, Schurman and Dwight, New York City 1917-21 ) 1925-30 ) . 1921-25 Secretary of State in cabinets of Harding and Coolidge I926-3O On various international commissions and delegations, representing tiie United States 1928 Awarded Roosevelt medal for developing public and international law Charles Evans Hugnes II - 3 Biographical Note (continued,/ 1930-41 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S., appointed by President Hoover 1942 Medal from American Bar Association for conspicuous service to jurisprudence 1948, Aug. 27 Died Author of: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government, (Yale lectures). 1909. The Pathway of Peace, and Other Addresses. 1925. The Supreme Court of the United States, (Coi.umbia Univ. lectures), 1927. Our Relation to the Nations of the Western Hemisphere, (Princeton Univ. lectures). 1928. Pan-American Peace Plans, (Yale Univ. lectures). 1929. See: Who Was Who in America, 194-3-50, vol. II, Marquis Charles Evans Hughes III -4 Note on Contents The Library of Congress listing of this collection is detailed, complete, end illuminating. The skeleton table of contents is as follows: Containers Numbers Contents 1-7 General correspondence 8-78 Personal correspondence and other papers as Secretary of State, 1921-25 79-14-5 Personal correspondence and other papers as Justice of the Supreme Court, 1930-41 14.6-156 Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers as Justice of the Supreme Court, 1939-41 157-164 Correspondence re Supreme Court controversies, 1932-38 165-130 Subject file, ±876-1939 181-183 Address file, 1907-1947 184-194. Subject matter, 1906-49 195-235 Scrapbooks, 1904-33: 41 volumes clippings 236-239 Commissions etc. in cylinders 1865-194$
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