Richmond P. Hobson

Richmond Pearson Hobson ( born August 17, 1870 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, † March 16, 1937 in New York City ) was an American politician (Democratic Party).

Career

Richmond Pearson Hobson attended private schools and the Southern University. He graduated in 1889 at the United States Naval Academy and in 1893 at the French National School of Naval Design in Paris. Hobson served from 1885 to 1903 in the U.S. Navy. During this time he worked as a naval architect, writer and lecturer. In addition, he was Special Representative of the Navy Department at the Buffalo Exposition of 1901 and the Charleston Exposition 1901-1902.

Hobson also pursued a political career. He was elected to the 60th U.S. Congress and reelected to the three succeeding U.S. Congresses. In his candidacy, 1916 at a nomination for the 65th U.S. Congress, he suffered a defeat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1907 to 3 March 1915.

He then moved to Los Angeles and from there later to New York City. He directed the 1921 American Alcohol Education Association, where he pursued a job as Secretary-General. Then he straightened 1923, the International Narcotic Education Association, where he held the position of President. Then he straightened, 1926, the World Conference on Narcotic Education, where he served as General Secretary and Chairman of the Board. In the following year he founded the World Narcotic Defense Association, where he pursued a job as president.

Hobson was later in 1933, the Medal of Honor awarded, which he earned in 1898 for the sinking of the Merrimac coal transporter. In the following year he was promoted to Rear Admiral.

Then he founded in 1935 the Constitutional Democracy Association, where he has also served as president. He died a year later in New York City, his body was then transferred to Virginia, where he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Honors

  • USS Hobson (DD -464 ), destroyer Gleaves - class was named after him
  • The town of Castine (Texas ) has been renamed to Hobson
Greensboro (Alabama) Hale County (Alabama) Counter admiral Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman) Name Authority File
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