Hobart P. (Hobey) Bauhan grew up in Goochland County, Virginia, graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1988, and has enjoyed a career in governmental relations, serving now for 28 years as President of the Virginia Poultry Federation following early stints on congressional staffs in Washington, D.C. and in the Administration of former Virginia Governor George Allen. He is a 2006 graduate of the UVA Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s Political Leaders Program.
He currently serves on the Virginia Board of Workforce Development and the Advisory Committee on International Trade of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. Previous board service includes the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce (2013 Chair), the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (2018 Chair), Harrisonburg Electric Commission (2022 Chair).
A highlight of his career was attending the pardon by President Obama at the White House of a Virginia turkey tom named Cobbler on November 21, 2012, during which he was permitted to wander around the State Floor and into the Green Room, which the mansion’s first residents – his 5th great-grandparents President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams – used as a guest bedchamber and where hang Gilbert Stuart’s portraits of his 4th great-grandparents, John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams. Bauhan is a direct descendant of the two Presidents on his mother’s side through Charles Francis Adams and enjoys genealogy and American history.
