Justice Hughes joins the Supreme Court as youngest member
Long profile notes Charles Evans Hughes awaiting October 10 swearing in as the youngest justice. The piece details age comparisons with Fuller Harlan McKenna Day White Moody and Lurton, geographic and political balance, and cites Hughes’s career from Colgate Brown and Columbia to gas and insurance investigations and governor of New York in 1906.
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Justice Day
Hughes
Justice Hughes
Marshall, Tgney, Field
Justice Moody
Moody
Justice
Peckham and Brewer
Supreme Court
McKenna
Day
United States
White
Massachusetts Court
Holmes
Taft
Lurton
Empire State
Fuller
Harlan
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Winois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Louisiana
California
Newark
Colgate University
Madison
Brown University
Brown
Delhi
N. Y
Columbia Law School
Stewart L. Woodford
United States Attorney
Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower
New York City
Sothoroush
Armstrong Commission
Alexander Simpson
Notable legislative actions and reforms influence
Summary of measures associated with a political figure including vetoes on rail fare and Coney Island fares, creation of public service commissions, drafting insurance laws, anti race track betting efforts, Wall Street investigation, direct primaries advocacy, opposition to an income tax amendment phrasing, and telephone telegraph company regulation under public commissions.
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Public Service Commissions
Coney Island
Wall Street
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