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- Rutland Herald (VT)
May 15, 2010
SPRINGFIELD - Charles H. McHugh, 92, of Springfield, died May 13, 2010, at Cedar Hill Nursing Home in Windsor.
Born in 1917 in New York, he was a third-generation attorney who graduated from the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School. One of his first jobs was answering mail at the White House for President Franklin D Roosevelt and later was on the secretarial staff from 1939-1941.
He worked as an assistant New York district attorney and was a pilot and instructor in 1943 for the U.S. Air Corps, flying B-25s. In 1947, he went to work for the law firm of Charles Poletti. Living in the Bronx, he started his own law firm. He served on the school board and was elected to two terms in the New York Legislature.
He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1948, 1952 and 1972, as well as the town's Democratic chairman for Springfield.
After a 25-year legal career, in 1967 Mr. McHugh became a teacher at Springfield High School. He wrote and negotiated one of the first teacher contracts in Vermont.
He retired from teaching in 1982, and went on to serve on the Board of Directors of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont from 1983-97, as chairman of the board from 1985-90, and spent nine years as Vermont Labor Relations Board chairman.
He enjoyed politics, reading, golf and baseball, and was a sports enthusiast.
He was married to Marie McHugh, who died in January 2008.
He is survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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