Charles Merrill Hough, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American judge
Date of Birth: 18-May-1858
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 22-Apr-1927
Profession: judge, lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Charles Merrill Hough
- Charles Merrill Hough (May 18, 1858 – April 22, 1927) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
- He was the son of brigadier general Alfred Lacey Hough (1826-1908) and Mary Jane Merrill. He married Ethel Powers in 1906.
- They bore two children: Helen Anastasia Hough (1905-1978) and John Newbold Hough (1906-2000).
- Hough's most historically memorable judicial ruling came in 1908 when he quashed a libel suit brought by U.S.
- government for President Theodore Roosevelt against a newspaper critical of the way the administration handled Panama Canal startup.
- U.S.
- Supreme court upheld Hough’s ruling unanimously in 1911.
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