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Hughes was born on Muddy Creek Plantation, Powhatan County, Virginia, on January 16, 1821, the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Woodson (Morton) Hughes. He was a descendant of Jesse Hughes, a Huguenot refugee who came to Virginia some time between 1695 and 1700 and settled on the south side of the James in what is now Powhatan County. Robert's parents both died in 1822 and he was reared by Gen. Edward C. Carrington, of Halifax County.
In 1843 he entered upon the study of law at Fincastle, Va.
In 1881, the College of William & Mary conferred on Judge Hughes an honorary doctor of law degree.
When he was twelve years old, "he was put to the carpenter's trade in Princeton, N. J. , where he remained for rather more than four years". Later he attended the Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, N. C. , for eighteen months, and then became tutor of mathematics in the Bingham high school, Hillsboro, N. C. He began to practise law in Richmond in 1846.
Already distaste for office work and a flair for literature had set him to writing editorials for the Richmond Examiner, with the young editor of which, John M. Daniel, he had established in the Patrick Henry Literary Society a friendship that was to prove enduring; and from 1853 to 1857, while Daniel was in Europe, he was the Examiner's editor. From November 1857 to February 1861 he was an editor of the Washington Union, residing in Secretary of War Floyd's house and advocating "the old State Rights doctrines of the National Democratic party, under the eye of President Buchanan, with General Cass as my much consulted personal friend and mentor" (A Chapter of Personal and Political History). Chronic disease now caused his retirement to his farm near Abingdon in Washington County, where he lived until 1874, interested in horses and, occasionally, in the Cumberland Gap railroad, but always watching politics.
When Virginia seceded, unable to join General Floyd's command, he at once resumed connection with the Examiner, and until the summer of 1864 he wrote many of its leading editorials, for the most of the time from his somewhat distant home in the country. He then, like the editor, Daniel, lost hope in the Confederate cause and felt unequal to the task of further inspiriting soldiers, which the paper had made one of its chief undertakings. Hostile to the Davis administration from the beginning, he later printed guarded suggestions of peace through separate state action, and also the extraordinary attack of March 1865 on the secret preparations for the evacuation of Richmond. In the confused politics of Reconstruction days his course was deemed "nimble" by some: he edited the Richmond Republic, the first Republican paper published in Richmond after the war, 1865-66; he attended the National Democratic Convention in 1868; and from 1869 to 1870 he was editor of the Richmond State Journal.
An editorial in the Journal which virtually charged prominent white people with inciting the murder of negroes led to a duel with William E. Cameron, in which Cameron was wounded. The Grant administration, anxious to improve the quality of the Republican party in Virginia, made Hughes federal district attorney (1872); nominated him for Congress (1872), and for governor (1873), but failed to elect him to either office; and then made him judge of the federal court for the eastern district His course as judge (1874 - 98), and his opposition to "readjustment" of the state debt, restored the prestige of the court and regained him many old-time friends. During this period he edited five volumes of United States circuit and district court reports, and published A Popular Treatise on the Currency Question Written from a Southern Point of View (1879); A Chapter of Personal and Political History (1881); The American Dollar (1885), in behalf of bimetalism; and several suggestive historical addresses, among them Editors of the Past (1897), which contains some autobiographical material.
He died at his home near Abingdon; two sons survived him.
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He vigorously advocated state's rights and believed in the right of secession as an abstract doctrine, but was opposed to it as a measure, though he uttered the warning that, logically, slavery agitation would bring it about.
Coolness, intelligence, aggressiveness were his striking characteristics.
On June 4, 1850, he married Eliza M. Johnston, niece of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and adopted daughter of Gov. John B. Floyd.
