CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES - ENVELOPE SIGNED CIRCA 1931 - HFSID 35566
Price: $200.00
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
Charles E. Hughes signs an envelope in brown ink.
Envelope signed: "Charles E. Hughes", 5¼x3¼. 2-cent stamp
affixed, postmarked Washington, D. C., 2 March [year illegible].
Rubber stamped address to a collector at lower right margin. 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). Hughes served until he retired
in 1941. Lightly soiled not near signature. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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