Charles E. Hughes

(noun)

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (April 11, 1862–Aug. 27, 1948) was an American professor, judge, and politician. He served as the 36th governor of New York, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Secretary of State, judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States. The Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, Hughes lost to Woodrow Wilson.

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  • The Election of 1916

    • Incumbent Democratic President Wilson narrowly defeated Republican Supreme Court Justice Hughes in the 1916 election.
    • The United States presidential election of 1916, which pitted incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson against Republican Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I.
    • They turned to Supreme Court Justice Charles E.
    • Hughes was the only Supreme Court Justice to be nominated for president by a major political party and was joined on the ticket by former Vice President Charles W.
    • Red denotes states won by Hughes/Fairbanks, Blue denotes those won by Wilson/Marshall.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Walrond and Langston Hughes .
    • Visual artists of the time included Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Leslie Bolling, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibold Motley .
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    • Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in Harlem.
    • Langston Hughes was one of the most well-known writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • According to Locke, The New Negro, whose publication by Albert and Charles Boni in December 1925 symbolized the culmination of the first stage of the New Negro Renaissance in literature, was assembled "to document the New Negro culturally and socially – to register the transformations of the inner and outer life of the Negro in America that have so significantly taken place in the last few years."
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    • Notable Harlem Renaissance figures included Locke, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Nella Larson, Wallace Thurman, and Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, and Eric D.
    • Langston Hughes was a prominent novelist and poet who emerged from the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Court Packing

    • The Justice Department was not prepared to deal with the New Deal legislation not only because of its sheer amount but also because of intensified demands that the Great Depression produced for its employees (e.g., higher crime rates).
    • As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would later note that the court did not uphold much of the New Deal legislation because it was was so poorly drafted and defended.

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    • E., Murphy, C., & Woodward, P. (2011).
    • Hughes-Hallett, D., Gleason, A.

  • Art and Illusion

    • Other artists who used optical illusions in their work include Bridget Riley, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Reutersvärd, Victor Vasarely and Charles Allan Gilbert.
    • Contemporary artists who have experimented with illusions include Sandro Del-Prete, Octavio Ocampo, Dick Termes, Shigeo Fukuda, Patrick Hughes, István Orosz, Rob Gonsalves, Gianni A.

  • The Retreat from Progressivism

    • ., Charles Evans Hughes, and Herbert Hoover on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson and Al Smith on the Democratic side .

  • Opposition from the Courts

    • As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would later note, it was because much of the New Deal legislation was so poorly drafted and defended that the court did not uphold it.

  • Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

    • Leading politicians from both parties, most notably Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, and Robert LaFollette on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson on the Democratic side, took up the cause of progressive reform.

  • The End of the Carolingians

    • The Carolingian dynasty began with Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel, but began its official reign with Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short, displacing the Merovingian dynasty.
    • One chronicler dates the end of Carolingian rule with the coronation of Robert II of France as junior co-ruler with his father, Hugh Capet, thus beginning the Capetian dynasty.