James Peter Hughes (December 18, 1874 – August 30, 1961) was a justice of the

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from January 3, 1933, to January 1, 1939. Born in Vigo County, Indiana,"Ex-State Justine James Hughes Dies", ''The Terre Haute Tribune'' (August 31, 1961), p. 11. Hughes attended DePauw University and the

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In 1911, Governor Thomas R. Marshall appointed Hughes as the first judge to serve on the newly established 64th Indiana judicial circuit, encompassing Putnam County, Indiana. Hughes served in that capacity until his election to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1932, for which he took office in January 1933. He declined to run for re-election in 1938, and instead accepted a posting as an assistant attorney general of the state, working under

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."Judge James P. Hughes Named Assistant Attorney-General", ''The Star Press'' (December 24, 1938), p. 2. He later resumed the practice of law in Greencastle, Indiana. From 1942 to 1943, Hughes served on a federal railway strike panel. Hughes died at his country home near Greencastle, Indiana.

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