# Willis Van Devanter

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From the Archives 92: Hugo Black, Radio Address (1937)

Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) was a politician and judge from Ashland, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1906 and practiced law in Birmingham. In the early 1920s, he joined the Ku Klux Klan, but resigned in 1925. In 1926, he was elected to the United States Se…

The New Deal, Part 7: Remaking the Supreme Court

In the final installment of The New Deal, Judge Stephen Sfekas examines what happened after the Supreme Court upheld a state minimum-wage law and the Wagner Act, weakening the case for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing plan. The proposal failed, but Justice Willis Van Devanter’s retirement soon…