Today in Supreme Court History: August 27, 1948

8/27/1948: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes dies.

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

Comments

[MiloMinderbinder]

What does US history look like if Hughes' campaign doesn't piss of the state GOP in California and he wins the 1916 Election?

[Dan Schiavetta]

Winner of the Charles Evans Hughes lookalike contest!

[CJColucci]

I've always loved Hughes's facial hair and eyebrows. I also liked how his son, Charles Junior, was a partner at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, so the firm didn't have to change its name after Chuck Senior (for you Billions fans) left to become Chief Justice.
Does anyone know of a good biography? Merlo Pusey published a two-volume doorstop in 1951, but there really ought to be something more recent.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

Harvard published his "Autobiographical Notes," which I've heard were pretty enjoyable reading. I would also like to read a new bio. I remember reading in William O. Douglas' autobiography that he rated Hughes very highly as a person and a Chief Justice.

[Eddy]

"I’ve always loved Hughes’s facial hair and eyebrows."

Thanks to those, even if he weren't Chief Justice, he could still have played one in the movies.