Hughes was the grandson of Chief Justice and 1916 Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes and the son of Charles Evans Hughes, Junior., who served as United States Solicitor General, 1929 and 1930 under President Herbert Hoover.
Brown University; Deerfield Academy.
Hughes" younger brother Stuart was a renowned historian who was noted for antiwar activities during the Vietnam War. As a young man, Hughes attended Deerfield Academy and Brown University, and later the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In World World War II, Hughes served as the gunnery officer in United States Ship Mullaney (Doctor of Divinity-528).
Hughes was a resident of Riverdale, Bronx, New New York
