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John Shadrach Hart (30 October 1838 – 21 February 1912) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to John and Sarah Hart, and attended Cape's School and then Savigny's Collegiate School in
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. He became a farmer, first at Port Stephens and then in the Barwon and Namoi regions. He was subsequently a publican and timber merchant at
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, where he was an alderman and the inaugural mayor. Around 1869 he married Eliza Ellen Sullivan, with whom he had seven children. In 1891 he was elected to the
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as the
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member for
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, serving until his defeat in 1894. He lived in
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from around 1903, and it was there that he died in 1912.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, John Shadrach 1838 births 1912 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians