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'Garret Augustus Hobart' (June 3 1844 – November 21 1899) was the twenty-fourth Vice President of the United States.

He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Marlboro Township. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1863 and was a member of The Delta Phi Fraternity. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Paterson.
Hobart served in the Paterson city counsel in 1871 before serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1872 to 1876, serving as speaker in 1874. He was a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1876 to 1882, serving as its president in 1881.
He was nominated as the Republican candidate for Vice President on the ticket with William McKinley, and was elected in the 1896 presidential election.
He served as Vice President from March 4 1897, until his death from heart failure in Paterson, New Jersey on November 21, 1899, aged 55. Following his death, the Vice Presidency remained vacant for more than a year until the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt to that post in 1901. Hobart is interred in Cedar Lawn Cemetery
During his tenure as Vice President, his wife Jennie Hobart frequently performed the duties of First Lady because Ida Saxton McKinley, wife of President of the United States William McKinley, suffered from epilepsy.

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★ U.S. Senate biography

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★ Owings Stone biography

★ Garret Hobart at Find A Grave

★ History Central biography