Kammala wannan magana: Hughes ya kasance wakili ne a majalisun jam'iyyar Democrat guda uku da ke wakiltar New Jersey. Ya halarci zaben Harry S. Truman na cikakken wa'adi a matsayin shugaban kasa a Philadelphia a shekarar 1948 (a matsayin mai maye gurbinsa), zabin Mataimakin Shugaban kasa Hubert H. Humphrey a matsayin mai dauke da tuta a Chicago a shekarar
1968 da kuma majalisar dattijai George S. McGovern ta 1972 a Miami Beach.