BIOGRAPHY Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 03/05/1921 to 03/04/1925

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• Born in Glens Falls, New York, April 11, 1862;
• Graduated from Brown University in 1881 (A. M. 1884) and from Columbia Law School in 1884;
• Admitted to the bar in 1884 and practiced in New York City;
• Married Antoinette Carter in 1888;
• Professor of law at Cornell University, 1891-1893;
• Counsel for committees of the New York Legislature, 1905-1906;
• Special assistant to the United States Attorney General in the coal investigation in 1906;
• Governor of New York, 1907-1910;
• Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1910-1916;
• Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1916;
• Secretary of State in President Harding's Cabinet March 5, 1921 and continued in  office under President Coolidge until March 4, 1925;
• As Secretary of State, he presided over the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament 1921-1922
• Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. 1926-1930;
• Chairman of the United States delegation to the Sixth Pan American Conference in 1928 and delegate to the Pan American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation. 1928-1929;
• Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928-1930;
• Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1930-1941;
• Died in Osterville, Massachusetts, August 27, 1948.