Hughes, Charles James, Jr.

Hughes, Charles James, Jr., a Senator from Colorado; born in Kingston, Caldwell County, Mo., February 16, 1853; attended the common schools; was graduated from Richmond (Mo.) College in 1871 and from the law department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1873; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice at Richmond, Mo.; moved to Denver in 1879; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Bryan and Stevenson in 1900; delegate to theDemocratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1904 which nominated Parker and Davis and at Denver in 1908 which nominated Bryan and Kern; for many years professor of mining law in the law school of the University of Denver, Colorado, and Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, until his death in Denver, Colo., January 11, 1911; interment in Fairmont Cemetery.