The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971

LC control no.n 79056509
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingBlack, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Black, Hugo L.
Birth date1886-02-27
Death date1971-09-25
Place of birthClay County (Ala.)
Place of deathBethesda (Md.)
Field of activityLaw Justice, Administration of
AffiliationUniversity of Alabama. School of Law
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Supreme Court
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators Lawyers Judges
Found inU.S. Congress. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts. Investigation of air mail and ocean mail contracts ... 1934.
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, October 4, 2017 (Black, Hugo Lafayette, a Senator from Alabama; born near Ashland, Clay County, Ala., February 27, 1886; attended the public schools and Ashland College, Ashland, Ala.; graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1906; 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.)
Assistance to states and territories in providing programs of public education, 1937: page ii (Hugo L. Black, Alabama, Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor)
Associated languageeng