[1] In 1935 the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill replacing the four-member Highway Commission with a single commissioner.

[3] He served for seven years, continuing under Hoffman's Democratic successors, A. Harry Moore and Charles Edison.

When the full report of the investigation was released the following year, it found malfeasance in some cases of land acquisition for right-of-way purposes, where property owners represented by influential politicians were given sweetheart deals.

He later served as president of the New Jersey Lumbermen's Association and in 1950 was appointed to the National Lumber and Allied Products Retailers Industry Advisory Committee to the United States Department of Commerce.

A resident of Avon-by-the-Sea, he died on September 30, 1983, at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune City at the age of 89.