Profile of Charles Evans Hughes

Editors' Introduction

Prefatory Note, by Charles Evans Hughes

1. My Father and Mother

2. Childhood

3. College Life

4. Teaching and Studying Law

5. Early Experiences at the Bar, 1884-1887

6. First Firms, 1888-1891

7. Teaching Law

8. Practice Again, 1893-1905

9. The Gas and Insurance Investigations, 1905-1906

10. The Governorship, 1907-1910

11. The Supreme Court, 1910-1916

12. 1916

13. 1917-1921

14. Secretary of State, 1921-1925

15. Foreign Policy Problems

16. The Open Door and Other Issues

17. Practice Again, 1925-1930

18. Chief Justice, 1930-1941

Appendix I. Ancestry

Appendix II. Speeches--Methods

Appendix III. Memorandum on Freedom of Speech and of the Press

Appendix IV. Hughes as Governor, by Robert H. Fuller

Index