Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.

Who was Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.?

Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. was the United States Solicitor General in 1929-1930.

As a young man, Hughes 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 editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review during his third and final year there. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1912.

Admitted to the bar in 1913, Hughes was secretary to New York Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo from 1914 to 1916. In 1914 Hughes was married to Marjory Stuart.

After practicing corporate law briefly, Hughes joined the United States Army as a private shortly after U.S. entry into World War I. Serving in field artillery, he was eventually commissioned a second lieutenant on July 12, 1918. He served as an instructor at the artillery school at Saumur and was assigned to the intelligence section of the AEF headquarters in February 1919. He was then assigned to the 77th Division as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford. He returned to the United States on April 29 and was discharged on May 9, 1919.

Upon returning from the war, Hughes resumed the practice of primarily corporate law. Hughes practiced in the firm founded by his father, Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., then known as Carter, Hughes & Cravath.