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 GARRET A. HOBART

was born in Monmouth County, N. J., June 3, 1844; entered the Sophomore class of Rutgers College in 1860, and graduated in 1863, at the age of 19, thereafter taught school until he entered the law office of Socrates Tuttle, of Paterson, N. J.; was admitted to the bar in 1869, and commenced the practice of law in the office of that gentleman; was clerk for the grand jury in 1865; city counsel of Paterson in 1871; was elected counsel for the board of chosen freeholders in May, 1872; entered the legislature in 1873, and was reëlected to the assembly in 1874, and was made speaker in 1876; was elected to the senate in 1879, and in 1881 was elected president of that body, and reëlected in 1882; was a delegate at large to the Republican national convention in 1876, and was again chosen in 1880; was elected a member of the national committee in 1884 and served continuously until 1896, when he was nominated for Vice-President by the Republican national convention, and was duly elected, and took the oath of office on March 4, 1897.