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Charles Hughes Influence On Government
resDaniel Calabrese 11/11/12

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. lived from April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948. Throughout his life he was an American statesman, a lawyer, and a Republican politician from New York. He was the 36th Governor of New York from 1907 through 1910. He was also the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1910 to 1916 and the United States Secretary of State from 1921 through 1925. He then became a judge on the Court of International Justice from 1928 through 1930 and then continued on to be the 11th Chief Justice of the United States of America from 1930 to 1941. He also was the Republican candidate in the 1916 United States of America Presidential Election, losing by …show more content…
Serving in this until 1941 he replaced former President William Howard Taft. His appointment was opposed by the progressive elements in both parties who felt that he was too much of a friendly person to do big business. Idaho Republican William E. Borah said that confirming Hughes would constitute “placing upon the court as Chief Justice one whose views are known these vital and important questions and whose views, in my opinion, however sincerely entertained, are not which out to be incorporated in and made a permanent part of the legal and economic system.” Even so he was confirmed as Chief Justice with a vote of 52 to 26. Since he was Chief Justice he swore in President franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, 1937, and 1941. Hughes went through many court cases and fought vigorously with the people of the court and his feelings that he felt coming from civilians and the other people of power within the government to come out on the other side as a stronger justice in the court system with many powerful people at his side helping him every step of the
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