Alphonso Hart (July 4, 1830 – December 23, 1910) was a

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who was a

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, in the Ohio State Senate, and the 11th

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Biography

Hart was born in

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. His father died when he was age twelve, and he was bound out to a farmer for three years. After seven months he started out alone. Smith 1898 : 321 Hart attended the common schools and Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio, and studied law in

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. He was

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August 12, 1851. Hart was married to Phebe Peck of Warren in 1856.

Career

He moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, remained two years, and was then elected Assistant Clerk of the

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. He purchased the Democratic newspaper "Portage Sentinel" in

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, which he edited until he sold it in 1857. He also practiced in Ravenna. He served as

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for Portage County from 1861 to 1864, when he resigned. He served as member of the Ohio Senate 1865, 1872, and 1874, and was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1874-1876.

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for

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/ Wilson in 1872. In 1874 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1878 to

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. In 1880 he was nominated for the Forty-seventh Congress in the seventh district but lost to John P. Leedom. Hart was elected as a

to the Forty-eighth Congress in the 12th district (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-ninth Congress. He served as Solicitor of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department from 1888 to 1892. He resumed the practice of law in

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Death

Hart's wife, Phebe, died in 1868. They had a son and a daughter. Brennan 1880 : 497 Hart died in 1910 and is interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio US.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hart, Alphonso Lieutenant Governors of Ohio 1830 births 1910 deaths Ohio state senators United States Department of the Treasury officials People from Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio County district attorneys in Ohio 1872 United States presidential electors Washington, D.C., Republicans 19th-century American politicians Grand River Academy alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio