[1] Admitted to the bar in 1913, Hughes was secretary to New York Judge (and future Supreme Court of the United States Justice) Benjamin N. Cardozo from 1914 to 1916.

[2] After practicing corporate law briefly, Hughes joined the United States Army as a private shortly after U.S. entry into World War I.

"[2] On June 18, 1914, Hughes was married to Marjory Bruce Stuart in the little Chapel of St. Saviour, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.

[8] Marjory, then a senior at Vassar College (her roommate was the groom's sister, Helen Hughes), was a daughter of Henry Clarence Stuart.

[9] Together, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters: He died of a brain tumor on January 21, 1950, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.