Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hobart ya fadada ikon mataimakin shugaban kasa, ya zama mai ba da shawara ga shugaban kasa, kuma ya dauki rawar jagoranci a matsayin shugaban majalisar dattijai. Tsakanin ayyukansa na jagoranci da jagoranci, watakila shi ne mataimakin shugaban kasa mafi tasiri tun lokacin Martin Van Buren. Ko da yake Magie, da ke rubuce a shekara ta 1910, ta ce mutuwar Hobart "ta sa ya zama sananne sosai", ba a yawan tunawa da tsohon mataimakin shugaban a yau. A cewar Hatfield, an fi saninsa da mutuwarsa, yana share fagen hauhawar Gwamnan New York Theodore Roosevelt, wanda ya ɗauki matsayin Hobart a tikitin Republican a 1900 kuma ya yi nasara a matsayin shugaban kasa bayan kisan McKinley
a shekara ta 1901.