Hobson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Withrow High School in Cincinnati in 1954. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) in 1958 and a law degree from Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) in 1963.
He served in the Ohio Air National Guard from 1958 to 1963.
Hobson served as an Ohio state senator from 1982 to 1990, serving as President of the Ohio Senate from 1988 to 1990.
In 1990, after Mike DeWine left his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to become Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Hobson was elected to replace him. Hobson began serving in the House in 1991 (102nd Congress).
David Lee Hobson (born October 17, 1936) is an American politician of the Republican Party who serves as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio, based in Springfield.
Hobson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Withrow High School there in 1954.
Hobson served as an Ohio state senator from 1982 to 1990, serving as President of the Ohio Senate from 1988 to 1990.
Hobson was among a delegation of lawmakers who went to Iraq following the war to visit with troops and U.S. military leaders.
Hobson was elected to the U.S. House in 1990 after eight years in the Ohio Senate, where he had developed a reputation as an authority on health care issues.
In Congress, Hobson acted as a moderator among lawmakers after the federal shutdown in 1996 because of a budget impasse and served on the House ethics committee when then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an ally of his, was being investigated.
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