Career
Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901. In 1907 he left the Post to become manager and part owner of the Beaumont Enterprise, and he acquired the entire paper shortly thereafter. Hobby was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1914 and after James Edward Ferguson was removed from office in 1917, he became the youngest governor in the history of the state up to that point.
He returned to the Enterprise after leaving office and was asked in 1924 to take over as the president of the Houston Post.
In August 1955, Hobby became chairman of the board of the Houston Post Company, which also included the radio station, KPRC, and the television station, KPRC-television, with Mistress Hobby as president and editors
Hobby served as a member on the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College.As governor, he appointed the Wichita Falls railroad and oil industrialist Joseph A. Kemp to the University of Texas Board of Regents, a position which Kemp held from 1917 to 1921. William P. Hobby Airport
Hobby Elementary School in Houston, Texas
Hobby Middle School in San Antonio, Texas.