Hugo Black

US Supreme Court justice from 1937 to 1971

Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1927 to 1937 and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1937 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party and a devoted New Dealer, Black endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections. Early in his life, Black was a member of the revived Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, espousing the group's largely anti-Catholic views.

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