Charles Evans Hughes Jr.

Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (November 30, 1889 – January 21, 1950) was the United States Solicitor General from 1929 to 1930. He was the son of Supreme Court chief justice Charles Evans Hughes.

Early life 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.

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.