Individual Details
Jerry Miles "Jr." Hughes
(21 May 1917 - 14 Apr 1982)
Events
| Birth | 21 May 1917 | Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States | |||
| Death | 14 Apr 1982 | Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States |  | ||
| Burial | Memorial Park Cemetery, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States |
Families
| Father | Judge Jerry Miles Hughes (1884 - 1970) |
| Mother | Oressie Collier (1892 - 1980) |
| Sibling | Thomas H. Hughes (1924 - ) |
| Sibling | William Oscar Hughes (1931 - 1994) |
Notes
Death
Ex-House Minority Leader Hughes DiesOrangeburg - Jerry Miles Hughes Jr., 64, an attorney and former minority leader of the S.C. House, died Wednesday.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today in St. Paul's United Methodist Church. Burial, directed by Dukes-Harley Funeral Home, will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Hughes was born in Orangeburg, a son of Judge Jerry M. Hughes and Oressie Collier Hughes. He was a member of St. Paul's Methodist Church. He wa a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the University of South Carolina Law School, class of 1941.
He was student body president and a member of the varsity football team, captain of th boxing team and the ODK Fraternity.
Mr. Hughes was a member and past president of the Orangeburg Law Association, the Kiwanis Club, Elks Club, V.F.W. and a Marine Corps veteran of World War II.
Surviving are his wife, Jean Hardwick Hughes; two sons, Jerry M. Hughes III of St. Andrews and Jennings H. Hughs of Orangeburg; and two brothers, Thomas H. Hughes of Orlando, Fla., and William O. Hughes of Tallahassee Fla.