Hughes, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1823,, in Hampstead, Md. He was appointed first lieutenant of the sixteenth regiment of United States infantry, one of the ten regiments in the Mexican war, and served until the close of the war. In 1852 he was elected circuit judge for six years; and in 1853 was elected professor of law in the university of Indiana, and served three years. He was elected a representative from Indiana in the thirty-fifth congress; in 1861 was appointed a judge of the court of claims; and in 1866 was appointed a cotton agent for the treasury department.
He subsequently settled in Washington city as an attorney at law, but was soon afterward elected to the legislature of Indiana.