Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.

Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. (November 30, 1889 – January 1, 1951) was the United States Solicitor General in 1929-1930.

As a young man, Hughes was an honor graduate of Brown University and the Harvard Law School, serving as the editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review during his third and final year there.

Admitted to the bar in 1913, Hughes was secretary to New York Judge (and future Supreme Court of the United States Justice) Benjamin N. Cardozo from 1914 to 1916. In 1914 Hughes married the former Marjory Stuart. After practicing corprate law briefly, Hughes joined the United States Army as a private shortly after U.S. entry in to World War I. Serving in field artillery, he was eventually commissioned a second lieutenant. Upon returning from the war, Hughes resumed the practice of primarily corporate law.

Appointed Solicitor General by Herbert Hoover, Hughes was compelled to resign when Hoover nominated Hughes' father, Charles Evans Hughes, Sr to be Chief Justice of the United States, this to avoid conflict of interest. Hughes then served on the board of directors of New York Life Insurance Company, 1930-1934. Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., was also the father of the noted historian and activist H. Stuart Hughes, and Charles Evans Hughes, III, an architect, and two daughters, Helen Hughes and Marjory Bruce Hughes.