Charles E. Hughes, statesman; born at Glens Falls, N. Y., April 11, 1862; graduated from Brown university, 1881; professor in Cornell law school, 1891-1893 and special lecturer, 1893-1895; practiced law in New York City, 1884-1891 and 1893-1906; counsel for the Armstrong insurance committee (N. Y. legislature), 1905-1906; special assistant to the United States attorney general in the coal investigation, 1906; declined republican nomination for mayor of New York City, 1905; governor of New York for two terms, January 1, 1907 to October 6, 1910 when he resigned to become associate justice of the supreme court of the United States; nominated for president of the United States in the republican national convention at Chicago on June 10, 1916 and resigned from the bench the same day; defeated by President Woodrow Wilson; practiced law in New York, 1916-1921 and on March 4, 1921 was appointed by President Harding as secretary of state of the United States.

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