people. After his retirement, Hughes served as a consultant to the Senate and the Senate Judiciary Committee for a year. He then started the Harold Hughes foundation and opened the Harold Hughes Center to combat alcoholism. After some time in Iowa, Hughes considered running for governor in 1982 but did not. Hughes moved to a retirement community in Glendale, Arizona, where he died. His remains were returned to Iowa and buried in the Ida Grove cemetery in Ida Grove, Iowa. Hughes and his first wife, whom he married in 1941, divorced in 1987. Six weeks after the divorce, he married his former secretary, Julie Holm, with whom he had been living with for a year after he was separated from his soon to be ex-wife. Hughes moved to Arizona and lived in a single-family home with his second wife, while his first wife lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Iowa. Hughes and his former wife got into bitter alimony and child support battles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hughes' former wife claimed that he had completely cut off her annuities and health insurance, while Hughes claimed that he himself did not have money. Ultimately, Hughes was ordered to pay back over $10,000 to his former wife, which she successfully collected from his estate. Because of the Harold Hughes Center's declining fortunes, Hughes owed approximately $80,000 to creditors in the 1990s. Combined with increasing medical expenses and the court-ordered alimony payments, Hughes' debts increased dramatically during his last years, and he died virtually bankrupt. Hughes' former wife, who lived comfortably in Iowa, died in 2017. See also Hughes–Ryan Act References Notes Hughes, Harold E. The Man From Ida Grove: A Senator's Personal Story . Waco, Tex.: Word Books, 1979; Larew, James C. "A Party Reborn: Harold Hughes and the Iowa Democrats." Palimpsest 59 (September/October 1978): 148–61. Anonymous. "Conversation with Senator Harold Hughes." Addiction 92 (February 1997): 137–149. Foreword by Senator Edward Kennedy. Hughes, Harold E., with Dick Schneider. The Man From Ida Grove: A Senator's Personal Story . Lincoln, VA: Chosen Books, 1979. Larew, James C. "A Party Reborn: Harold Hughes and the Iowa Democrats." Palimpsest 59 (September/October 1978): 148–61. Smith, Thomas S. "The Vietnam Era in Iowa Politics." Palimpsest 63 (September/October 1982): 138–41. External links as Harold Hughes as Harold E Hughes |- |- |- |- 1922 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American politicians American Christian pacifists United States