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Garret Hobart
Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th vice president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his death in 1899, under President William McKinley. A member of the Republican Party, Hobart was an influential New Jersey businessman and political operative prior to his vice presidency.
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politics · Vice President of the United States from 1897 to 1899 · politician · lawyer · also Garret Hobart, Garret Augustus Hobart, Garret A. Hobart, Hobart
Born 3 June 1844 · Died 21 November 1899 · Q310841
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President William McKinley Taking The Oath (1901) by Thomas A. Edison
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2026· 2 entries
“I make politics my recreation.”
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1930· 1 entry
"it was an intimate friendliness that no vice president and his wife, before or since, have had the privilege of sharing with their chief administrator
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1922· 1 entry
"for the first time in my recollection, and the last for that matter, the Vice President was recognized as somebody, as a part of the Administration, and as a part of the body over which he presided"
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1910· 2 entries
Stated that Hobart's death "fixed his memory at the height of his fame", the former vice president today is little remembered
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By Magie, as well as a 1930 memoir written by Hobart's wife Jennie on the couple's life in Washington D
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1900· 2 entries
And succeeded as president after McKinley's assassination in 1901
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Was taken by Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded as president after McKinley's assassination in 1901
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1899· 3 entries
Died 1899-11-21.
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His family announced that Hobart would not return to public life
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Aged 55, causing the office of the Vice President to be vacant for the remainder of McKinley's first term as, until the passage of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no constitutional provision to fill a vacancy in th
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1897· 2 entries
Hobart and his family left Paterson to travel to Washington by special train
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1897–1899).
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1896· 3 entries
McKinley and Hobart were elected
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The voters cast their ballots in most states; a nervous Hobart spent the day at his office
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Hobart journeyed by train to Canton, where he was met at the station by his running mate
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1883· 1 entry
Was the Republican nominee in the election for United States Senate—until the passage of 17th amendment in 1913, senators were elected by state legislatures
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1881· 1 entry
And 1882, he served as President of the state Senate, becoming the first man to lead both houses of the legislature
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1876· 2 entries
Was a delegate to every Republican National Convention in his lifetime
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Was nominated for the New Jersey Senate seat for Passaic County
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1874· 2 entries
Still only age 30, he was voted Speaker of the Assembly
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And the New Jersey Senate, where he became its president in 1881
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1872· 1 entry
Hobart ran as a Republican for the New Jersey General Assembly from Passaic County's third legislative district
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1871· 1 entry
Appointed Hobart as city counsel
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1866· 1 entry
The year he became a lawyer, Hobart was appointed grand jury clerk for Passaic County, New Jersey
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1860· 1 entry
Hobart enrolled at Rutgers College
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1844· 2 entries
In Long Branch, New Jersey, to Addison Willard Hobart and Sophia Hobart (née Vanderveer)
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Born 1844-06-03.
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1841· 1 entry
Moved to Long Branch, where Addison founded an elementary school
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