Mrs. A. Lincoln Hobbs

His wife Mrs. Alice Hobbs was among the original founders of Fresno's First Presbyterian Church.Mr. Hobbs and Dr. Rowell would become the original investors and founders who would publish the widely acclaimed The Fresno Republican weekly newspaper in 1877.
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A. Lincoln Hobbs, President and Manager of the successful corporation, Hobbs Parson's Company, was an international fruit shipper, President of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, an educator, and was impressed with Rowell's editorials in the Fresno Morning Republican and his community leadership in getting a new Charter for Fresno City. Hobbs nominated Chester Rowell for Mayor of Fresno City.
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Chester Rowell and A. Lincoln Hobbs became Charter Founders in 1890 of the Progressive Republican Lincoln Roosevelt League in California.
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Hobbs invited Theodore Roosevelt to Fresno and drove the automobile carrying the former president in a Van Ness Avenue Bull-Moose Party rally and Parade.
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Rowell and Hobbs also played a key role in the election of Hiram Johnson(R) to the Office of California Governor in 1910.
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Fresno businessmen, Hobbs and Fresno Morning Republican Editor and Publisher, Rowell developed the maxim Vote for the Man - Not the Party! and later lived up to that charge in gaining support for third party candidate Theodore Roosevelt in California.

Lincoln was the founder of the modern Republican Party in America.
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His wife Mrs. Alice Hobbs was among the original founders of Fresno's First Presbyterian Church.Mr. Hobbs and Dr. Rowell would become the original investors and founders who would publish the widely acclaimed The Fresno Republican weekly newspaper in 1877.
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A. Lincoln Hobbs, President and Manager of the successful corporation, Hobbs Parson's Company, was an international fruit shipper, President of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, an educator, and was impressed with Rowell's editorials in the Fresno Morning Republican and his community leadership in getting a new Charter for Fresno City. Hobbs nominated Chester Rowell for Mayor of Fresno City.
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Chester Rowell and A. Lincoln Hobbs became Charter Founders in 1890 of the Progressive Republican Lincoln Roosevelt League in California.
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Hobbs invited Theodore Roosevelt to Fresno and drove the automobile carrying the former president in a Van Ness Avenue Bull-Moose Party rally and Parade. Hobbs and Rowell were the sponsors of the original state campaign for obtaining the direct primary in California under which the Bull Moose Party became qualified.

Rowell and Hobbs also played a key role in the election of Hiram Johnson(R) to the Office of California Governor in 1910.
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Fresno businessmen, Hobbs and Fresno Morning Republican Editor and Publisher, Rowell developed the maxim Vote for the Man - Not the Party! and later lived up to that charge in gaining support for third party candidate Theodore Roosevelt in California.

Three Candidates opposed Lincoln: Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat), John Cabell Breckenridge (Southern Democrat) and John Bell (Constitutional Union Party).
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Lincoln passed the Homestead Act under the realization that settling the Frontier was important as well as the need for citizens to have a piece of land to call their own.This action also placated the former members of the Free Soil Party by offering public land grants.In his attempts to enhance education, Lincoln donated land for agricultural and technical colleges to states through the Land Grant College Act which in turn helped establish universities throughout the United States.Keeping in mind the significance of the Republican Party, Republicans worked to strike death to slavery.In 1863, Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Republican Congress passed the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. Ensuing battle, resentment over the draft and taxes, and the failures of the military leadership delivered Lincoln and the Republicans into the 1864 campaign with scant hope for victory.Party leaders saw the opportunity to broaden the base of the party and adopted the name National Union Party.Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a "War" Democrat, was nominated as Lincoln's running mate.
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Significant military victories transpired before election day and contributed to Lincoln's overwhelming reelection. After Lincoln's assassination, the Republican Congress continued to push for legislation extending full protection of Civil Rights to blacks.The Radical Republicans, led by Sen.
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Sumner ended up in stitches, a war was fought and Lincoln died for these principles.
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Lincoln was the founder of the modern Republican Party in America.
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Two of Fresno's early Republican Party pioneers were physician, Chester H. Rowell, from Denver and school teacher, Albert Lincoln Hobbs from Springfield and Boston, Mass. Hobbs was the descendant of 16th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
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Albert Lincoln Hobbs would be the founder of a fruit packing and shipping company and the Chairman of the Fresno County Central Committee and of the California Republican Party.
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A. Lincoln Hobbs, President and Manager of the successful corporation, Hobbs Parson's Company, was an international fruit shipper, President of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, an educator, and was impressed with Rowell's editorials in the Fresno Morning Republican and his community leadership in getting a new Charter for Fresno City. Hobbs nominated Chester Rowell for Mayor of Fresno City.
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Chester Rowell and A. Lincoln Hobbs became Charter Founders in 1890 of the Progressive Republican Lincoln Roosevelt League in California.
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Hobbs invited Theodore Roosevelt to Fresno and drove the automobile carrying the former president in a Van Ness Avenue Bull-Moose Party rally and Parade. Hobbs and Rowell were the sponsors of the original state campaign for obtaining the direct primary in California under which the Bull Moose Party became qualified.
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Rowell and Hobbs also played a key role in the election of Hiram Johnson(R) to the Office of California Governor in 1910.
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The Fresno businessmen, Hobbs and Fresno Morning Republican Editor and Publisher, Rowell developed the maxim Vote for the Man - Not the Party! and later lived up to that charge in gaining support for third party candidate Theodore Roosevelt in California.
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A 20th Century descendant of 16th Century English political economist Thomas Hobbes, and nephew of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain, Howard is also linked to early Fresno Morning Republican newspaper co-founders, Dr. Chester Rowell and First Presbyterian Church founder, A. Lincoln Hobbs, Fresno Hobbs-Parsons Co. shipping company founder, of Massachusetts and Fresno.
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Hobbs won the first California Ford Fellow post in the 1958 California Legislature, while completing his bachelor's degree at Fresno State in only three years. Under his Ford Foundation fellowship, Hobbs researched and wrote the California Legistature's Fresno Housing Study in 1959.
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Hobbs earned the bachelor's degree in economics & journalism at Fresno State in 1959 and a J.D. Doctorate of Law at the William Blackstone School of Law in Chicago graduating with honors in 1970.He earned the Ph.D. in Psychology in 1975 from the Walden Institute in Minneapolis.Hobbs holds a 1981 economics C/I doctorate from University of Southern California.He was the chief economist at the Washington D.C. based Economics Institute until 1992.Hobbs is the in-house Corporate Counsel for WebPortal Inc. in Palo Alto, and serves as Dean of th American Law Review, and Editor of Valley Press pubications including the Bulldog Newspaper at Fresno State, The Clovis Free Press, TheYosemite Valley News, Tower District News, The Fresno Republican, The California Star, and the national edition of The Daily Republican.

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