John Sloss Hobart

John Sloss Hobart ( born May 6, 1738 in Fairfield, Connecticut, † February 4, 1805 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Federalist Party), who represented the State of New York in the U.S. Senate.

After graduating from Yale College in 1757 John Hobart studied law, became a member of the Bar and began to practice in New York. In June 1764 he married Mary Greenill.

In 1774 he was a member of a Committee of Correspondence, a corporation, which served to coordinate the policies of the Thirteen Colonies. The following year, Hobart participated in the Provincial Convention of New York; to 1777 he was a delegate to the Provincial Congress then of New York, which replaced the Parliament of the colonial province of New York. He also worked with the Council of safety of the revolutionary movement. In 1788 he took part in the ultimate state convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States.

From 1777 Hobart was then predominantly legally operate. Until 1798 it belonged to the Supreme Court of the State of New York as an assistant judges ( puisne Justice). In that year he was chosen to succeed the retiring U.S. Senator Philip Schuyler. He took his seat on at this time in Philadelphia, which meets Congress from January 11, 1798 true and remained there until 16 April of the same year. After him, U.S. President John Adams had appointed as a judge at the Federal District Court for the District of New York, Hobart was the judiciary again the preference. Until his death in February 1805 he worked as a federal judge.