Charles Evans Hughes Jr.

Hughes was born in New York City on November 30, 1889. He was a son of Antoinette Ellen Carter Hughes (1864–1945) and Charles Evans Hughes, the former governor of New York who served as Chief Justice of the United States and 1916 Republican presidential nominee. He was an honor graduate of Brown University where he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. After Brown he attended the Harvard Law School, serving as the president of the Harvard Law Review during his third and final year there. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1912. ==Career==

Admitted to the bar in 1913, Hughes was secretary to New York Judge (and future Supreme Court of the United States Justice) Benjamin N. Cardozo from 1914 to 1916. Solicitor General Appointed Solicitor General by Herbert Hoover, Hughes was compelled to resign in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest when Hoover nominated Hughes's father to be Chief Justice of the United States. Hughes re-joined Carter, Hughes & Cravath. He also served on the board of directors of New York Life Insurance Company from 1930 to 1934. Judge Learned Hand once observed that Charles Evans Hughes Sr. was the greatest lawyer he had ever known, "except that his son was even greater." ==Personal life==

On June 18, 1914, Hughes was married to Marjory Bruce Stuart in the little Chapel of St. Saviour, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Marjory, then a senior at Vassar College (her roommate was the groom's sister, Helen Hughes), was a daughter of Henry Clarence Stuart. Together, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters: • Charles Evans Hughes III (1915–1985), an architect. • H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), a noted historian and activist • Helen Hughes, who was named after Hughes's sister Helen Hughes, who died at age 28 in 1920. • Marjory Bruce Hughes (1929–2014), who married William Lee Johnson in 1952, the former general counsel of Otis Elevator Company. He died of a brain tumor on January 21, 1950, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York. ==References==