Charles Evans Hughes

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • New York governor

  • Secretary of State under Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge

  • Narrowly lost the presidential election to Woodrow Wilson; Wilson came up with a plan to avoid a lame duck wartime presidency if Wilson lost

  • William Howard Taft nominated him for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

  • Took Taft’s seat as Chief Justice when he died (when Taft died, not when Hughes died), nominated by Herbert Hoover

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