James H. Hughes

James Hurd Hughes ( * January 14, 1867 in Felton, Kent County, Delaware; † August 29, 1953 in Lewes, Delaware ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.

After James Hughes had the Collegiate Institute in Dover, a further education institution attended and received private tuition, he worked for several years as a teacher at a school in Kent County, before he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1890. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he then worked in agriculture and in the banking industry.

From 1897 Hughes held the office of the Secretary of State of Delaware, which he held until 1901. In 1912 he was a delegate Delawares in the Electoral College, the Woodrow Wilson elected as U.S. president. He ran in 1916 for the Democrats as Governor of the State, but was defeated with 47 percent of the vote to Republican John G. Townsend, who received 52 percent.

Until 20 years later, James Hughes returned to politics when he won the Republican incumbent Daniel O. Hastings defeated in the battle for one of the two mandates of Delaware in the U.S. Senate. Hughes received 53 percent of the vote, only 41 Hastings After six years in office January 3, 1937 to January 2, 1943, in those six years, consistently the Democrats were in the majority in Congress, he lost in the primaries of his party against E. Ennalls Berl. However, this was subject to the actual election the Republican C. Douglass Buck.

After the end of his political career, James H. Hughes returned to the legal profession. In addition, he served until his death on 29 January 1953 as director of a bank in Delaware.

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