Charles J. Hughes, Jr.

Charles James Hughes, Jr. ( born February 16, 1853 in Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri, † January 11, 1911 in Denver ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

After attending the public schools in his native Charles Hughes received his college degree in Richmond in 1871. Then he studied until 1873 successfully passed the law at the Law Faculty of the University of Missouri in Columbia, was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Richmond. In 1879 he moved to Denver.

At the University of Denver and at the Harvard University Hughes then worked as a lecturer in mining law. His first political activity he undertook in 1900 as an elector of the Democratic Party in the presidential elections. However, the victorious in Colorado William Jennings Bryan was defeated by Republican incumbent William McKinley.

On March 4, 1909 Hughes moved as the successor of not more candidates Henry Moore Teller of Colorado in the U.S. Senate. However, he died in the second year of his tenure in Denver.