#1195 - Charles Evans Hughes stamp FDC

#1195 - Charles Evans Hughes stamp FDC, Apr 11, 1962 (Washington, D.C.). Cachet craft Ken Boll.

Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York (1907-1910), United States Secretary of State (1921-1925), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910-1916) and Chief Justice of the United States (1930-1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson.

#1268 - Dante Alighieri stamp FDC

#1268 - Dante Alighieri stamp FDC, cachet craft, Jul 17, 1965 (San Francisco, CA).

Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia by the author and later nicknamed Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.