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Louis Folwell Hart (4 January 18624 December 1929) was an American politician who served as the seventh
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from 1913 to 1919 and as the ninth governor of Washington from 1919 to 1925. He was a Republican. He reorganized the state's administrative structure by reducing the number of agencies and the consequent financial economies.Staff (5 December 1929) "Death Summons Louis F. Hart: Life was Eventful" Centralia Daily Chronicle 38(280): p. 1, 8


Biography

Hart was born in
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and studied law in Missouri. He married Ella James on 9 February 1881 in Missouri and over the course of years they had five children, three sons and two daughters,


Career

Lured by the frontier, Hart and his wife moved to
Snohomish, Washington Snohomish is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 9,098 at the 2010 census. It is located on the Snohomish River, southeast of Everett and northwest of Monroe. Snohomish lies at the intersection of U.S. Rou ...
in the late1880s,Staff (18 December 1930) "Wife of Former Governor Passes" ''Centralia Daily Chronicle'' 39(300): p. 1 where he practiced law. In 1899 they moved to Tacoma where he continued to practice law and was an insurance agent."Gubernatorial Spoon River" ''Time Magazine'' 13 October 1924
/ref> Winning the Republican nomination in 1912, Hart was elected as Washington's seventh Lieutenant Governor and he was reelected in 1916. During World War I Hart served chairman of the Selective Service Appeals Board for Southwest Washington. Hart became governor when the then -governor Ernest Lister retired in 1919 due to failing health. Hart was elected governor in his own right in 1920. Hart was instrumental in getting new road projects through the state legislature and strongly supported the creation of a state highway patrol. He oversaw the construction of a new State Capitol complex. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was reorganizing the state's administrative structure, reducing the number of administrative agencies from 75 to 10. He did not have a Lieutenant Governor from his election as governor until William J. Coyle was appointed to the office in 1921. He is the last governor of the state, to date, that did not have a Lieutenant Governor at any time during his governorship. Hart did not run for reelection in 1924, but instead retired to Tacoma where he practiced law, and served as the president of the ''State Good Roads Association''.


Death

Hart died on 4 December 1929, in
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. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park,
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.


References


Further reading

*Sobel, Robert, and Raimo, John (eds.) (1978) ''Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978'' Vol. 4. Meckler Books, Westport, CT, *White, J.T. (ed.) (1933) ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, being the history of the United States '' Vol. 23. James T. White & Company, New York
OCLC 64067983


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Washington Secretary of State
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