Henry P. Hughes

Henry Patrick Hughes (August 13, 1904December 12, 1968) was an American lawyer and jurist from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1948 until resigning in 1951. He previously served ten years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in east-central Wisconsin. Biography Henry Hughes was born in Fountain Prairie, Wisconsin, in August 1904. He received his early education in Columbia County, Wisconsin, and then attended Oshkosh State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh). He went on to attend Marquette University and Georgetown University Law Center where he earned his LL.B. in 1927. He practiced law at an Oshkosh law firm from 1928 to 1934 and simultaneously served as city attorney in 1933 and 1934. In 1934, he was elected municipal judge for the city of Oshkosh. He continued in that office until December 1937, when he was appointed a Wisconsin circuit court judge by Governor Philip La Follette. Hughes presided over Wisconsin's 3rd judicial circuit, which then comprised Winnebago and Calumet counties. He was subsequently elected to a full term as judge in 1938, and was re-elected without opposition in 1944.