Statement Files, January 1974–January 1974

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Statement Files, January 1974–January 1974

1974

This series consists of papers collected by Maria McPhail. The papers contain a statement written by Judge Sarah T. Hughes describing Judge Hughes' memories of administering the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson on board Air Force One after the death of President John F. Kennedy.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11672975

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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Hughes, Sarah Tilghman, 1896-1985

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Sarah T. Hughes, jurist, politician, and feminist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 2, 1896, daughter of James Cooke and Elizabeth (Haughton) Tilghman. Her parents were descended from colonial families that immigrated to North America in the 1660s. She attended public schools in Baltimore and in 1917 graduated from Goucher College with an A.B. in biology. After two years of teaching science at Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she enrolled in the George Washington Universit...