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Quote from: Keystone Phil on September 17, 2005, 08:45:04 PM

Quote from: WalterMitty on September 17, 2005, 08:06:04 PM

question for the history buffs....has any sitting supreme court justice ever resigned to run for president (or any other political office).

Charles Hughes (GOP candidate from 1912) was a Supreme Court Justice at one time.

1916 Phil. Wink

Hughes was a terrible canddiate. He didn't know how to act. He did not meet with Governor Johnson (which would have assured California, and thus the race). He nearly tied himself to the pro-War Teddy Roosevelt, and he ran as the "I'm not Woodrow Wilson" Candidate.

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