Philip Hofmann was born on May 25, 1909, in Ottumwa, Iowa, where his father was a pharmacist.
[1] He earned his undergraduate degree in 1930 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in economics.
[4] He helped establish the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest philanthropy in the United States devoted exclusively to health and health care.
[2] After having been nominated to the position by Governor of New Jersey William T. Cahill in July 1973, he resigned as one of the six commissioners representing the Garden State on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, citing a conflict with Governor Brendan Byrne over the Port Authority's role in mass transit.
[5] He was a resident of Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, and Surfside, Florida.