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Did You Know...

All in a Day’s Work


In June 1916, the Republican Party nominated Justice Charles Evans Hughes, a former New York governor, as the party’s candidate for president, marking the first and only time a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court was so named. A somewhat reluctant candidate, Justice Hughes resigned from the Court upon accepting the nomination and began campaigning. The nominee quickly found himself in some unusual locations to garner support, including going 3,000 feet below ground to inspect the Leonard Mine in Butte, Montana. Despite these efforts, Hughes lost the state’s four electoral votes to the eventual winner, incumbent President Woodrow Wilson. Hughes returned to the Court in 1930 as Chief Justice after being nominated by President Herbert Hoover to fill the vacancy left after the death of William Howard Taft and served until his retirement in 1941.

 

Charles Evans Hughes and his wife, Antoinette, gamely pose for a press photographer on August 12, 1916, after their hour-long copper mine tour for which they were fully outfitted in protective clothing, helmets, and gas lanterns.
Charles Evans Hughes and his wife, Antoinette, gamely pose for a press photographer on August 12, 1916, after their hour-long copper mine tour for which they were fully outfitted in protective clothing, helmets, and gas lanterns.
Underwood & Underwood, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States


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