Ari Hoogenboom

Ari Hoogenboom
Born	Ari Arthur Hoogenboom (1927-11-28)November 28, 1927 Richmond Hill, New York, U.S.
Died	New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Academic, educator, historian
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Atlantic Union College Columbia University
Subject	American history
Spouse	Olive Youngberg (August 28, 1949-October 25, 2014; his death); 3 children

Ari Arthur Hoogenboom (November 28, 1927 – October 25, 2014) was professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. He was a scholar of the Gilded Age, particularly in the life and Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Hoogenboom grew up in the Queens borough of New York City, where he graduated from John Adams High School. He later earned a bachelor's degree from Atlantic Union College. There, he met and married his wife Olive, with whom he would later collaborate on several books. He went to graduate school at Columbia University, where he earned his MA and PhD, and was a student of David Herbert Donald. He taught history from 1956-58 at the University of Texas at El Paso, and from 1958-68 at Pennsylvania State University. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965. From 1968 to 1998 he taught at Brooklyn College.

After his retirement from Brooklyn College, Hoogenboom authored Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels, and Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography, about Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox. He worked with his wife Olive on a book that she was writing, Washington Women: The Woodbury Sisters.

Death

Hoogenboom died in 2014, aged 86, from complications of mesothelioma.

Bibliography

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Title	Year	Publisher	Subject matter
Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883	1961		U.S. Civil Service Reform
The Enterprising Colonials: Society on the Eve of the Revolution (with William S. Sachs)	1965
History of Pennsylvania (with Phillip S. Klein)	1973		History of Pennsylvania
A History of the ICC: From Panacea to Palliative (with Olive Hoogenboom)	1976		Interstate Commerce Commission
The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes	1988	University Press of Kansas	Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President	1995	University Press of Kansas	Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels	1999	State House Press	Rutherford B. Hayes
Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography	2008	Johns Hopkins University Press	Gustavus Fox
The Gilded Age			The Gilded Age

External links

• Booknotes interview with Hoogenboom on Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President, July 2, 1995
• Life Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits series, which heavily featured Hoogenboom