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Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes Documentary Premiering Online

December 13, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

My Native AirThe new feature documentary, My Native Air: Charles Evans Hughes and the Adirondacks, co-produced by MDT Publishing and Snarky Aardvark Films, is premiering on-demand in a limited run from January 15th to February 15th, 2021. [Read more…] about Charles Evans Hughes Documentary Premiering Online

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature Tagged With: art, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles R Wood Theater, Documentary, film, Forest Preserve, Fort Ticonderoga, Glens Falls, Historic Preservation, Judical History, Lake George, Political History

President Taft At Old Ticonderoga

December 1, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

President Taft at the Grandstand at Ticonderoga provided by Fort TiconderogaPresident William Howard Taft dozed for nearly five hours in the wee hours of the July 6th, 1909 morning as The Mayflower, his private rail car, was parked at the esplanade end of track No. 13 at Grand Central Station inn the city of New York. [Read more…] about President Taft At Old Ticonderoga

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Fort Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, Political History, Ticonderoga, William Howard Taft

Al Jolson and Harding’s ‘Front Porch Campaign’

July 24, 2020 by Maury Thompson 1 Comment

Al Jolson speaking during Warren G Harding's front porch campaign in 1920Charles Evans Hughes and Al Jolson shared a small stage at Marion, Ohio in 1920 as part of Republican presidential candidate Warren Harding’s “front porch” campaign.

Hughes, a lawyer in New York City at the time, and “a troupe” of Big Apple entertainers traveled on the same train from New York City to Marion the morning of Aug. 24. [Read more…] about Al Jolson and Harding’s ‘Front Porch Campaign’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, New York City Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Cultural History, Glens Falls, New York City, Political History, politics

Politics and War Preparations: Charles Evans Hughes in Plattsburgh

April 29, 2020 by Maury Thompson 2 Comments

Leonard Wood and Charles Evans Huhghes Reviews CItizen Soldiers at the PLattsburgh Training Camp in Sept 1916No one, other than railroad workers, was around on Sept. 5, 1916 when the campaign train of Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes stopped at the Louisville, Kentucky station, en route to Lexington and eventually upstate New York. [Read more…] about Politics and War Preparations: Charles Evans Hughes in Plattsburgh

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Military History, Plattsburgh, Political History, World War One

The 1910 Corinth Paper Mill Strike

April 27, 2020 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

There were riots in the streets of Corinth. A railroad trestle had been destroyed with dynamite. Attempts were made to blow two bridges on the roads leading into the village. National Guard units from adjoining counties were brought in to restore order. All of this upheaval occurred during the 1910 Corinth Paper Mill Strike. [Read more…] about The 1910 Corinth Paper Mill Strike

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Corinth, Industrial History, Labor History, Saratoga County

Suffragist Betty Wakeman Mitchell of Washington Co

March 26, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

Betty Wakeman Mitchell runs for Assembly from Washington CountyThe Post-Star of Glens Falls received first-hand accounts of the 1920 Republican National Convention from Washington County suffragist Betty Wakeman Mitchell, who had a choice seat in Section 70 of the Chicago Coliseum, where she could hear the nominating speeches.

Two years earlier Mitchell had run unsuccessfully in a Republican primary for the state Assembly seat representing Washington County (once the home of Susan B. Anthony). [Read more…] about Suffragist Betty Wakeman Mitchell of Washington Co

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Political History, Suffrage Movement, Washington County, womens history

A 1920 Election Presidential Front-runner Bows Out

January 16, 2020 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

Charles Evans HughesA year ahead of the 1920 presidential election former New York Gov. Charles Evans Hughes was considered a likely shoo-in for the Republican nomination, after narrowly losing the last election.

Hughes was New York governor from 1907 to fall 1910, when he resigned to accept nomination as a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. [Read more…] about A 1920 Election Presidential Front-runner Bows Out

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, New York City, Political History, Supreme Court

Charles Evans Hughes Lecture In Ticonderoga

April 9, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

animated feather dusterLongtime Glens Falls Post-Star reporter Maury Thompson will present a program on local figure Charles Evans Hughes on April 12th in Ticonderoga.

Hughes served as Governor of New York from 1907 until 1910. After serving as governor, Hughes was a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. He resigned from the Court in 1916 to accept the Republican nomination for President, losing by a narrow margin to incumbent Democrat Woodrow Wilson. He would go on to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. [Read more…] about Charles Evans Hughes Lecture In Ticonderoga

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, Events, History Tagged With: Books, Charles Evans Hughes, Journalism, Media, Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Historical Society

The Fracking Report In Historical Perspective

January 8, 2015 by Bruce Dearstyne 1 Comment

George Bellows - Up the Hudson (1908)Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision in December to ban the use of hydrofracking in New York State was politically astute. The governor asserted he is merely following the recommendations in a new report from the State Health Department, A Public Review of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development.

That report, based on four years of research, is also politically judicious. It avoids condemning hydrofracking or sensationalizing its potential health risks. Instead, it concludes that “the overall weight of the evidence from the cumulative body of information” studied for the report demonstrates that there are “significant uncertainties about the kinds of adverse health outcomes that may be associated with HVHF [High Volume Hydraulic Fracking], the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse health outcomes, and the effectiveness of some of the mitigation measures in reducing or preventing environmental impact which could adversely affect public health.” The 184-page report is buttressed by 74 references, mostly well-documented studies and reports from the past few years. [Read more…] about The Fracking Report In Historical Perspective

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Al Smith, Andrew Cuomo, Charles Evans Hughes, Conservation Department, DEC, DOH, Environmental History, Medical History, Political History, Thomas E. Dewey, Urban History

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