CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/06/1942 - HFSID 52189
Price: $400.00
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
Charles E. Hughes sends an autograph letter of regret that he will
not be able to accept the invitation.
Autograph Letter Signed:"Charles E. Hughes", 1p,
8½x11. On letterhead of Conquistador Hotel. Tucson, Arizona, 1942 February
6.To Frank M. Porl, Phoenix. In full: "I have received your letter
of yesterday, and while I appreciate your cordial insistence and your
willingness to accept me as a silent guest, I feel that I must forego this
opportunity. I long since ceased attending public activities. I do not attend
them even in Washington. There is always a certain amount of fatigue inseparable
from such occasions however otherwise enjoyable. I wish to be spared that."
Charles E. Hughes was Governor of New York (1907-1910) when President
Taft appointed him Associate Justice. In 1916, Hughes resigned from the
Supreme Court having received the Republican nomination for President; he lost
to Wilson. President Harding appointed him Secretary of State in 1921, and he
remained in that office when Coolidge became President in 1923, staying
until 1925. When Chief Justice Taft retired in 1930 because of ill health,
President Hoover appointed Hughes as Chief Justice, only the second man
reappointed to the Supreme Court (the first was John Rutledge). Lightly creased.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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