Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (1862–1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925) under Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes was an important leader of the progressive movement of the 1900s, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and a leader of opposition to the New Deal in the 1930s.

Charles Evans Hughes in "Joe Steele"
The arrest and execution of the so-called Gang of Four, four Supreme Court Justices who opposed President Joe Steele's first Four-Year Plan in 1933-34 cowed Steele's remaining opponents on the Court, including Chief Justice Chalres Evans Hughes. At Steele's second inauguration in 1937, Hughes was noticably subdued as he administered the oath of office.