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24th Vice President
Political Party Republican
Term March 4, 1897 - November 21, 1899  (52-55)
President William McKinley
Predecessor Adlai E. Stevenson
Successor Theodore Roosevelt


Full Name Garret Augustus Hobart
Birth

June 3, 1844

Long Branch, New Jersey

Father Addison Willard Hobart  (1819-1892)
Mother Sophia Vanderveer  (1819-1880)
Brothers

Erasmus Vanderveer Hobart  (1842-1885)

David Addison Hobart  (1846-1908)

Alma Mater Rutgers College  (1863)
Occupation

Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee  (1880-1891)

President of the New Jersey State Senate  (1881-1882)

Member of the New Jesey State Senate  (1876-1882)

Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly  (1874-1876)

Member of the New Jersey General Assembly  (1872-1876)

Counsel for the Passaic County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders  (1872)

City Counsel for Paterson, New Jersey (1871-1872)

Grand Jury Clerk for Passaic County, New Jersey  (1866-1871)

Lawyer

Death

November 21, 1899

Paterson, New Jersey

(55 years)


Marriages
Esther Jane Tuttle  (1849-1941)

Married July 21, 1869

(30 years)


Children
Fannie Beckwith Hobart

Born 1871

Died 1895

(24 years)

Elizabeth Tuttle Hobart

Born 1876

Died 1877

(1 year)

Garret Augustus Hobart Jr.

(m.1906 Caroline Briggs)

Born 1884

Died 1940

(56 years)

Katherine Grey Hobart

Born 1886

Died 1886

(less than 1 year)

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