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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Alabama BLACK, Hugo Lafayette(1886—1971)Senate Years of Service: 1927-1937Party: Democrat 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. Ball, Howard. Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior . New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. ___. “Justice Hugo L. Black: A Magnificent Product of the South.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 791-834. Berman, Daniel M. “Hugo L. Black: The Early Years.” Catholic University Law Review 8 (May 1959): 103-16. ___. “The Political Philosophy of Hugo L. Black.” Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 1957. Black, Hugo Lafayette. “The Bill of Rights.” New York University Law Review 35 (April 1960): 865-81. ___. A Constitutional Faith . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. ___. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Black: The Memoirs of Hugo L. Black and Elizabeth Black . New York: Random House, 1986. ___. “The Lawyer and Individual Freedom.” Tennessee Law Review 21 (December 1950): 461-71. ___. “Reminiscences.” Alabama Law Review 18 (Fall 1965): 3-11. Black, Hugo, Jr. My Father, a Remembrance . New York: Random House, 1975. Dilliard, Irving, ed. One Man’s Stand for Freedom: Mr. Justice Black and the Bill of Rights: A Collection of his Supreme Court Opinions . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Dunne, Gerald T. Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution . New York: Simon Schuster, 1977. Durr, Clifford J. “Mr. Justice Black: A Personal Appraisal.” Georgia Law Review 6 (Fall 1971): 1-16. Frank, John Paul. “Hugo L. Black: Free Speech and the Declaration of Independence.” University of Illinois Law Forum (1977): 577-620. ___. Mr. Justice Black, the Man and His Opinions . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Freyer, Tony Allen. Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism . Edited by Oscar Handlin. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990. ___, ed. Justice Hugo Black and Modern America . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. Reprint of articles published in the Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985) and 38 (Winter 1987). Gregory, William A., and Rennard Strickland. “Hugo Black’s Congressional Investigation of Lobbying and the Public Utilities Holding Company Act: A Historical View of the Power Trust, New Deal Politics, and Regulatory Propaganda.” Oklahoma Law Review 29 (1976): 543-76. Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Hugo Black: The Alabama Years . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. ___. “Lister Hill, Hugo Black, and the Albatross of Race.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 845-60. ___, ed. Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights: Proceedings of the First Hugo Black Symposium in American History on “The Bill of Rights and American Democracy.” University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1978. Johnson, Nicholas. “Senator Black and the American Merchant Marine.” UCLA Law Review 14 (January 1967): 399-427. Lee, David D. “Senator Black’s Investigation of the Airmail, 1933-1934.” Historian 53 (Spring 1991): 423-42. Meador, Daniel John. Mr. Justice Black and His Books . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974. Murphy, Paul L. “The Early Social and Political Philosophy of Hugo Black: Liquor as a Test Case.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 861-79. Newman, Roger K. Hugo Black . New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. Shannon, David A. “Hugo La Fayette Black as United States Senator.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 881-97. Suitts, Steve. Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution. Montgomery: New South Books, 2005. U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses, and Other Tributes in the Congress of the United States on the Life and Contributions of Hugo Lafayette Black . 92 Cong., 1st sess., 1971. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972. U.S. Supreme Court. In Memoriam, Honorable Hugo Lafayette Black: Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, Proceedings Before the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1972. Washington: Supreme Court, 1972. Watson, Elbert L. “Hugo Lafayette Black.” In Alabama United States Senators , 120-23. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1982. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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