Naval officer and United States representative from Alabama. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, naval orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

Lobbyist for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Correspondence, reports, legislative proposals, writings, printed material, newsletters, and newspaper clippings reflecting the organization’s political objectives.