CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/02/1921 - HFSID 84788
Price: $500.00
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
Special passport for William C. Curtin, signed by Charles Evans
Hughes as President Warren G. Harding's Secretary of State in 1921, the same
year he became President Warren G. Harding's Secretary of State.
Passport signed "Charles E. Hughes" as President Warren G.
Harding's Secretary of State, 2 pages, 8¾x12, 1 sheet folded, front and
verso. With red 1¾-inch Great Seal of the United States affixed near left corner
and remnants of white paper Great Seal affixed near lower right corner.
Washington, DC, Dec. 2, 1921. Passport for Carl P. Winter, who intended
to travel to "Mexico on official business for the United States Railroad
Administration". Hughes (1862-1948, born in Glen Falls, New York) 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). The Hughes court approved
many exercises of federal power, but struck down a number of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Hughes served until he retired in 1941.
Chipped at corners. Folds and creased, not near signature. Lightly soiled.
Missing right corners. Silk repairs in left corners along spine. Otherwise in
fine condition.
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