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Hobart graduated from [[Rutgers University]] in New Jersey long before that institution was engulfed by [[socialist]]s and [[liberal]]s on the faculty. Hobart took his job as vice president more seriously than any of his predecessors since [[Thomas Jefferson]]. His colleagues considered him "earnest, congenial, fair-minded, and conscientious." Instead of deferring procedural matters to other senators on the floor, he was faithful in attendance and ruled on such issues himself. McKinley came to view Hobart as the "assistant President." Hobart was like most Republicans of his day a trade [[protectionist]] who supported higher [[tariff]]s than did most Democrats. He supported the questionable [[Spanish-American War]], though his foreign policy views were more restrained that the later interventionists Theodore Roosevelt and [[Woodrow Wilson]]. A backer of the [[gold standard]], Hobart opposed [[inflation]] of currency. In claiming the vice-presidential nomination in 1896, Hobart devoted his acceptance remarks to the gold standard, of which he was particularly well informed and eloquent. When the forces favoring sound money prevailed in the election, Congress passed the Gold Standard Act of 1900 four months after Hobart's death.<ref name=fee.org/>

Hobart graduated from [[Rutgers University]] in New Jersey long before that institution was engulfed by [[socialist]]s and [[liberal]]s on the faculty. Hobart took his job as vice president more seriously than any of his predecessors since [[Thomas Jefferson]]. His colleagues considered him "earnest, congenial, fair-minded, and conscientious." Instead of deferring procedural matters to other senators on the floor, he was faithful in attendance and ruled on such issues himself. McKinley came to view Hobart as the "assistant President." Hobart was like most Republicans of his day a trade [[protectionist]] who supported higher [[tariff]]s than did most Democrats. He supported the questionable [[Spanish-American War]], though his foreign policy views were more restrained that the later interventionists Theodore Roosevelt and [[Woodrow Wilson]]. A backer of the [[gold standard]], Hobart opposed [[inflation]] of currency. In claiming the vice-presidential nomination in 1896, Hobart devoted his acceptance remarks to the gold standard, of which he was particularly well informed and eloquent. When the forces favoring sound money prevailed in the election, Congress passed the Gold Standard Act of 1900 four months after Hobart's death.<ref name=fee.org/>

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