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GARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART (1844–1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART (1844–1899)  ,
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Vice-President of the
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United States 1897–1899, was born at Long Branch, N.J., on the 3rd of
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June 1844 . He graduated at Rutgers College in 1863, was admitted to the bar in 1869, practised law at Paterson, N.J., and rose to prominence in the State . He was long conspicuous in the State Republican organization, was chairman of the New Jersey State Republican Committee from 188o to 1890, became a member in 1884 of the Republican
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National Committee, and was the delegate-at-large from New Jersey to five successive Republican national nominating conventions . He served in the New Jersey Assembly in 1873–1874, and in the New Jersey Senate in 1877–1882, and was
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speaker of the Assembly m 1874 and president of the Senate in 1881 and 1882 . He was also prominent and successful in business and accumulated a large fortune . He accepted the nomination as Vice-President in 1896, on the ticket with President McKinley, and was elected; but while still in office he died at Paterson, N.J., on the 21st of November 1899 . See the
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Life (New York, 191o) by David Magie .

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