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Note: Attorney at Law, Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. Nephew of the late Garrett A. Hobart, Vice President in the first McKinley administration. Enlisted in the Third New Jersey Regiment, United States Volunteers at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. Was commissioned a major in the adjutant general's department. Was elected to the Assembly in 1917, 1920 and 1921. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, the North Reformed Church of Newark (an elder), and the Downtown Essex, Forest Hills Field and Lake Placid Clubs, Chi Phi fraternity, the Essex County, New Jersey and American Bar associations.. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Protestant Foster Home of Newark. In 1927 Mr. Hobart was proposed as a candidate for Governor by a group of drys. In 1929 he was appointed a special assistant attorney general. He was appointed a deputy attorney general again in 1930. He was a trustee of Rutgers University. He was president of the Essex County Council of Religious Education. He died at his home, 599 Mr. Prospect Ave at the age of 63. He was the author of the Hobart act, the state prohibition enforcement law, which was repealed in 1932. He was a member of the law firm of Hobart, Minard & Cooper. He was born in Brooklyn and reared on a farm in Marlboro, Monmouth Co. He attended Freehold High School and Glendale Institute, Matawan, and was graduated from Rutgers University in 1896. He began study of the law in the Freehold office of William H. Vredenburgh, former judge of the Court of Errors and appeals, and later in the office of Collins & Corbin, Jersey City firm, and New York Law School. When the Spanish-American war started he enlisted in the Third New Jersey Regiment and was commissioned a major in the Adjutant General's Department. He served in the Seventh Army Corps under Major General Fitzhugh Lee. Near the close of the war he resigned, resumed his law studies and was graduated from New York Law School in 1899. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in June that year and became a counselor three years later. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1914. For many years he was a member of the firm of Collins & Corbin. The Hobart act was passed in 1922. Mr. Hobart served in the Assembly from Essex County in 1918, 1921 and 1922. He was first elected on a home rule ticket after a fight with the county Republican organizations. Defeated for re-election in 1918, he was successful the following year as a candidate on the Essex County Republican League Slate. Mr. Hobart was Speaker of the 1921 House. In that year he also was a member of the Mackay investigation committee that conducted a probe of Hudson County election and financial affairs. In 1927 Mr. Hobart was proposed as a candidate for Governor by a group of drys. In 1929 he was appointed a special assistant attorney general to prosecute indictments against an official and some policemen in Ocean City, who were charged with nonfeasance in failing to stop the sale of liquor. He was appointed a deputy attorney general again in 1930 to serve as special prosecutor of Bergen County in place of Edward O. West, who was ousted because of disclosures in an investigacion of the Lodi Township sewer scandal. Mr. Hobart resigned nine months later and resumed his private law practice. He was a former trustee of Rutgers University. He was an elder of North Reformed Church and was a former president of the Essex County Council of Religious Education. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Protestant Foster Home of Newark. He left his wife, Mrs. Miriam Osborn Hobart; three sons, George A., Donald O. and John R. and a sister, Mrs. Walter M. Van Deusen. Funeral services were conducted at his home by Rev. Dr. T. Porter Drumm, pastor of the North Reformed Church of Newark, NJ. He is buried in the Old Brick Reformed Church in Marlboro, NJ.
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