CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES E HUGHES - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/21/1925 - HFSID 56701
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CHARLES E. HUGHES
Charles E. Hughes sends a typed letter of thanks for the letter on
his retirement.
Typed Letter Signed: "Charles E. Hughes" as Coolidge's
Secretary of State, 1p, 7x9. The Secretary of State, Washington, 1925
January 21. To Reverend R. Eliot Marshall, Holderness School,
Plymouth, New Hampshire. In full: "Your kind letter has been received
and I cordially appreciate your comment upon my retirement from
office." Embossed State Department seal at upper left. In 1921,
President Warren G. Harding had appointed Hughes as Secretary of State, and
Hughes continued in the office when Coolidge succeeded to the presidency upon
Harding's death. After Hughes left the State Department in 1925, he served
on the Hague Tribunal (1926-1930) and the Permanent Court of International
Justice (1928-1930). Hughes had been Governor of New York (1907-1910) when he
was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Taft in
1910. When he became a presidential candidate in 1916, Hughes resigned
from the Supreme Court. At the Republican National Convention, held in
Chicago on June 7-10, 1916, Hughes was nominated for President on the
third ballot. His running mate was Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President, Charles
W. Fairbanks. Hughes-Fairbanks almost defeated the reelection bid of
President Wilson and Vice President Marshall. In the November 7, 1916
election, early returns indicated that Hughes had been elected 29th U.S.
President and some newspapers reported his victory. But when the votes of
California were finally tabulated, Hughes had lost the state by about 4,000
votes. That gave the Democrats 277 electoral votes to the Republicans 254
votes. If California had gone for Hughes, the Republicans would have won
267-264. In 1930, Hughes once again returned to the Supreme Court.
President Herbert Hoover named him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to
succeed William H. Taft, who had first appointed Hughes to the Court. Hughes
retired in 1941 and died in 1948 at the age of 86. Shaded at blank edges, fine
condition.
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