Mr, Charles Evans Hughes was nominated by President Hoover succeed William Howard Taft today, Nhe nomination must go to the Senate for confirmation, Mr. Hughes is known internation: ally. as one of the lending jurists of the world: He was associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1910 to 1916, resigning in the latter year to campaign as Republican nominee for the presidency, A mistake Which lost him the support of the state of California probably cost him the election, Mx. Hughes obtaining, 254 electoral votes against 277 for Woodrow Wilson.
Among the many. high positions libeld by-Ar. Hughes have been those of governor of the state of New. York for two terms, Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents: Harding and Coolidge, commissioner plenipotentiary for" the. United States at the International Conference on Limitation of Armaments at Washington in 1921-2 where he' served as chairman; member of the! Permanent Court of International'
Justice at The Hague; and chairman of the United States delegation: to the Pan-American Conference at Havana in 1928, He has been president of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of President Hoover has sent a letter to Mr. Taft, who resigned yesterday' a Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, complimenting" him on his great service and accepting the. resignation which had been tendered on the ground of ill-health.
The President said that the form-ex Chief Justice, himself an ex-President, had had "an almost unparalleled career.
Former President Coolidge; who is undergoing treatment at Mount Dora, Florida, also praised Mr. Taft in. an interview. He commended the selection of Mr. Hughes to be the next Chief Justice, saying that the episode had again proved that "America is not a. one-man country, and is able to find a great man to fill a high place."
There is considerable discussion to the possibility that Mr. Robert Taft, son of the former Chief Justice, may succeed Charles Evans Hughes Jr. as Solicitor-General of the United States.. The Junior Mr. Hughes felt impelled to resign from the solicitor-generalship because it is often necessary for a Solicitor-General to go before the Supreme Court, which' will henceforth be presided over by his father if the Senate approves President. Hoover's! selection as seems virtually certain.
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