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Hugo LaFayette Black

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hugo LaFayette Black 1886-1971, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1937-71), b. Harlan, Clay co., Ala. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Alabama in 1906. He practiced law and held local offices before serving (1927-37) in the U.S. Senate. As Senator he ardently supported New Deal measures, conducted Senate investigations of merchant-marine subsidies (1933) and lobbying (1935), and sponsored (1937) the Wages and Hours bill. His appointment to the Supreme Court by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met strong opposition from the public and in the Senate because of his earlier... Read more
Hugo Lafayette Black
Hugo Lafayette Black The American jurist Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) was President Franklin...Supreme Court. Associate Justice Black was an ardent New Dealer and...youngest in a family of eight, Hugo Black was born on a farm in the rural... Read more
Black, Hugo Lafayette
Black, Hugo Lafayette (b. Harlan, Ala., 27 Feb...justice, 1937–1971. Black's humble origins as the...his beloved motherenabled Black to over‐come the...a week before his death. Black's rise to the nation's highest... Read more

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