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Lawyer, Barrett, Morris & Hoffman; Democratic national committeeman
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Hoffman, son of German-born farmer and lumberman George W. Hoffman, graduated from Valparaiso University in 1900 with both the B.S. and B.A. and from the University of Michigan law department in 1903. He practiced in Fort Wayne with Ballou, Hoffman & Romberg until February 1914, when he joined the firm of Barrett, Morris & Hoffman, with offices in the Shoaff Building and a practice weighted toward corporation law. He was secretary and treasurer of both the Deister Machine Company and the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Company and a director of the Tri-State Loan & Trust Company. A 33rd-degree Mason, he sat on the Democratic national committee, succeeding former U.S. Senator Thomas Taggart. He married Emily R. Hoffman on 7 May 1912.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.