Hughes, Charles Evans (04/11/1862-08/27/1948)

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Summary

  • Occupation: Governor of New York, Secretary of State, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Committees/Roles: Served ex-officio as Chief Justice, 02/04/1930; elected Chancellor, 05/29/1930
  • Number of Terms: 2

Subject

  • Hughes, Charles Evans
  • Board of Regents
  • Chancellor of the Smithsonian Board of Regents
  • Chief Justice of the United States
  • United States Supreme Court
  • Citizen Regent

Category

Smithsonian Board of Regents

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Images of this Regent can be found in the following repositories: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;The Supreme Courty of the United States; US Supreme Court Historical Society; US Department of State; Harvard University Law School; Harvard University Fogg Art Museum; Cornell University; City of Albany; Union League Club; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Brown University; Harry Ramsom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Regent type

Citizen and Chief Justice

State

New York

Short Legal Citation

45 Stat. 1 (1927), ch. 3

Notes

American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974; Encyclopedia of American Biography. Edited by John A. Garraty. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1974; Who Was Who in America. A companion biographical reference work to "Who's Who in America." Volume 2, 1943-1950. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Co., 1963.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

Regent Tenure: 12/27/1927- ; 2/4/1930-06/30/1941

Topic

  • Judges
  • Regents
  • New York

Place

New York

Form/Genre

Biographies

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