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  Black, Hugo L.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameHugo L. Black
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Birmingham, Alabama , United States
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Born February 27, 1886
DiedSeptember 25, 1971 (85 years)
ContributorRP
Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Mar 16, 2024 01:09am
Tags Army - Freemason - Ku Klux Klan - Baptist -
Infoborn near Ashland, Clay County, Ala., February 27, 1886; attended the public schools and Ashland College, Ashland, Ala.; was graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1906; was admitted to the Alabama bar the same year and commenced practice in Ashland, Ala.; moved to Birmingham, Ala., in 1907 and continued the practice of law; during the First World War served as a captain of the Eighty-first Field Artillery and as company regimental adjutant in the Nineteenth Artillery Brigade 1917-1918; police court judge in Birmingham, Ala.; prosecuting attorney of Jefferson County, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932 and served from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on August 19, 1937, having been appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); was confirmed by the Senate on August 17, 1937, took his seat as an Associate Justice on October 4, 1937 and served until his resignation on September 17, 1971, just days before his death in Bethesda, Md., on September 25, 1971; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.


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RACES
  08/18/1937 Supreme Court - Associate Justice Won 79.75% (+59.49%)
  11/08/1932 AL US Senate Won 86.25% (+72.49%)
  06/14/1932 AL US Senate - D Runoff Won 58.29% (+16.57%)
  05/03/1932 AL US Senate- D Primary Won 49.65% (+18.73%)
  11/03/1926 AL US Senate Won 80.87% (+61.75%)
  08/10/1926 AL US Senate - D Primary Won 33.35% (+10.24%)
ENDORSEMENTS
Supreme Court - Associate Justice - May 07, 1930 NPA Reject