CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES - DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT SIGNED 11/19/1923 - HFSID 280282
Price: $400.00
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
Charles Evans Hughes signs a scarce document signed with his full
name to appoint William Oscar Jones to represent the U. S. in Danzig.
Partly Printed Document Signed: "Charles Evans Hughes" as
Coolidge's Secretary of State, 1p, 17x14. Washington, 1923 November
19. Certification of William Oscar Jones as "Vice Consul de carrière of
the United States of America, has been assigned as Vice Counsel of the United
States of America at Danzig". Charles E. Hughes (1862-1948) 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). Hughes served until he retired
in 1941. Documents signed by Hughes in full are scarce and desirable.
Lightly creased. Fine condition.
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