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HOBART, GARRET AUGUSTUS (1844–1899)

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HOBART, See also:
GARRET (from the O. Fr. garite, modern guerite, a watch-tower, connected ultimately with " guard " and " ward ")
GARRET See also:
AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
AUGUSTUS (1844–1899) , See also:

VICE

Vice-See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President of the See also:

UNITED

United States 1897–1899, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Long See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

Branch, N.J., on the 3rd of See also:

JUNE

June 1844. He graduated at Rutgers See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1863, was admitted to the See also:

bar in 1869, practised See also:

law at See also:

Paterson, N.J., and See also:

rose to prominence in the See also:

State. He was long conspicuous in the State Republican organization, was chairman of the New See also:

Jersey State Republican See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee from 188o to 1890, became a member in 1884 of the Republican See also:

NATIONAL

National Committee, and was the delegate-at-large from New Jersey to five successive Republican national nominating conventions. He served in the New Jersey See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly in 1873–1874, and in the New Jersey See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate in 1877–1882, and was See also:

SPEAKER

speaker of the Assembly m 1874 and president of the Senate in 1881 and 1882. He was also prominent and successful in business and accumulated a large See also:

FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune. He accepted the nomination as Vice-President in 1896, on the See also:

TICKET (O. Fr. esliquet, also estiquette, mod. etiquette, from Ger. sleeken, to stick up)

ticket with President See also:

MCKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843—1901)

McKinley, and was elected; but while still in See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he died at Paterson, N.J., on the 21st of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1899. See the See also:

LIFE

Life (New See also:

York, 191o) by See also:

David Magie.

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