Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th vice president of the United States. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore, and grew up in nearby Marlboro. After attending Rutgers College, Hobart read law with prominent Paterson attorney Socrates Tuttle and married his daughter, Jennie. Hobart served in local governmental positions, and then successfully ran for office as a Republican.
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Garret Augustus Hobart was the 24th vice president of the United States. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore, and grew up in nearby Marlboro. After attending Rutgers College, Hobart read law with prominent Paterson attorney Socrates Tuttle and married his daughter, Jennie. Hobart served in local governmental positions, and then successfully ran for office as a Republican. He died on November 21, 1899 of heart disease at age 55; his place on the Republican ticket in 1900 was taken by New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. The sixth American vice president to die in office was Garret Hobart, who served from 1897 until his death in 1899. He is buried in the New Jersey State Cemetery in Marlborough, where he was a member of the American Antiquarian Society and served as a trustee of Rutgers University from 1872 to his death. The Hobart family was descended from 17th-century Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam who had moved to Long Island and then to New Jersey. Addison Hobart descended from the early colonial settlers of New England; many Hobarts served as pastors. Garret was the second of three boys; his father was Addison Willard Hobart and the ex-Sophia Vanderveer, who was a teacher at a school in Bradevelt, N.J., a small hamlet in the early 1850s. He graduated from the academy in 1859 at age 15, and was thought too young by his parents to attend college, remaining home for a year to study and work part-time at the Bradvelt School, the same institution that employed his father.
In addition to learning chancery in 1872, he became a counsellor-at-law in 1871 and a master chancry in 1874. He married Jennie Tuttle in 1866; he was admitted to the bar in 1875. He became a corporate lawyer in Paterson, NJ, and died in 1899 at the age of 55. He served as vice president under President William McKinley and was a close adviser to the President. He did not serve in the Union Army, though he did serve briefly as a loan officer in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the State of New Jersey in 1877. He also served in the state legislature as Speaker, and later as the Speaker of the State Senate. In later life, HobART was a generous donor to Rutgers, received an honorary degree after becoming vice president, and he was elected a trustee shortly before his death in 1900. The couple had three children, one of whom died in childbirth in 1881. The family moved back to Long Branch in 1844, where Addison founded an elementary school. In 1859, he was sent to a well-regarded school in Freehold, but after a disagreement with the teacher, he refused to return; he also boarded there during the week. He went to Middletown Point Academy, a prominent school in Matawan, N Jersey, and graduated in 1863.
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