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Show 4444444 4 44444444 44.44.44-444-44444-4:f 4 4-4 UkePresident Bead j I 0w Country fflournsl 4 4. 44.4 444I 44 4 4 444 44 44 44 4444-" 4 44-44444 4 4 44.4 4.44-4:4-; : . .p-f : ' I. : : JSC' aP- 4 . ' 4 Garret Augustus Hobart was born in Monmouth county. New Jer- 4 4 sey, June' 3, 1844; was gratuated from Rutgers college in 1S63 the age 4- 4' of 19; taught school until he entered the law office of Socrates Tuttln of " 4 Fatereon. N. J.: was'admitted to the bar in 1SR9; was' clerk for the grand 4 jury in 1SG5; city counsel of .Paterspn in 1S71; elected counsel for the board 4 of chosen freeholders in May, 1S72; entered the legislature in 1S73, and 4 was re-elected totheassembly in 1S74, and was made speaker in 1S75; 4 was elected to the senate -n Xi'i'J, ana i.."ii''i .v, :-.'. I t'riu'i..t u" 4 that body, and. re-elected in 1SS2; wit a delegate-at-large to the Repub- . 4 lican national convention in 1376, and was again chosen in 1SS0; was elect- 4 ed a member of the national committee in 1SSI. and served continuously -- 4 until 189fi, when" he was nominated for vice president by the Republican 4- 4 national convention and was duly elected, and took th? oath of office on 4 March 4, 1897. T" : PRESIDENT M'KINLEY ISSUES : : PROCLAMATION TO PEOPLE : 4 . : ' 4 Washington. Nov. 21. After the cabinet meeting today the president 4 issued the following proclamation: 4 By the President of the United States: . 4 .... A PROCLAMATION. 4 To the People of the United States: Garrett Augustus Hobart. vice 4 president of the United States, died, at his home in Paters.on. N. J., 4 4 at S:30 o'clock this morning. In him the nation has lost one of its 4 most illustrious citizens and one of its most faithful servants. His par- 4- 4 ticipation in the business life and the law making body of his native state 4 was marked by unswerving fidelity and by a hish order of talents and 4" attainments; arid his too brief career as vice president of the United 4- 4 States and president of the senate, exhibited the riualittes of upright 4- 4 and sagacious statesmanship. In the world of affairs he had few eauals -f in his contemporaries. His private character was gentle and noble "" ! 4 lie will long be mourned by his friends as a man of singular purity and '4 attractiveness, .whose sweetness of. disposition won all hearts, while his 4 elevated purposes, unbending integrity and whole hearted devotion to the . 14 public good, deserved and acquired universal respect and esteem. 4 In sorrowing testimony of the loss which has fallen upon the country -f- 4 I direct that upon the day of the runeral the executive offices of the United 4 :4 States shall.be closed, and all stations' of the army and navy shall 4 4 display the national flag at half-mast, and that the representatives of 4 the United States in foreign countries shall pay appropriate- tribute to "" 4 the illustrious dead for a period of thirlv days. -- 1 In witness whereof, I have set my hand and caused the" seal of the 4 United States to be affixed. 4 (Seal. i ' 4 Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-first day of Novem- -f 4- ber. in the Year of Our Lord. Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-nine, and 4 4 of'Vhe Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and Twenty-4 4 fourth. 4 4 (Signed) WILLIAM M'KINLEY. " 4 Bythe President: JOHN HAY. : 4 Secretary of State. 444 44444444 4444444s4 44 44 44 4 |