Alphonso Hart

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Alphonso Hart

|image=Alphonso Hart.png

|order=11th

|office=Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

|term_start=January 12, 1874

|term_end=January 10, 1876

|preceded=Jacob Mueller

|succeeded=Thomas L. Young

|governor=William Allen

|state2=Ohio

|district2=12th

|term_start2=March 4, 1883

|term_end2=March 3, 1885

|preceded2=George L. Converse

|succeeded2=Albert C. Thompson

|state_senate3=Ohio

|district3=26th

|term_start3=January 3, 1865

|term_end3=December 31, 1865

|preceded3=Luther Day

|succeeded3=N. D. Tidballs

|term_start4=January 1, 1872

|term_end4=January 4, 1874

|preceded4=Henry McKinney

|succeeded4=N. W. Goodhue

|party=Republican

|birth_date={{birth date|1830|7|4}}

|birth_place=Vienna, Ohio

|death_date={{death date and age|1910|12|23|1830|7|4}}

|death_place=Washington, D.C.

|restingplace=Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Ohio

|spouse=Phebe Peck

|children=two

|religion=

|signature=

|alma_mater=Grand River Institute

}}

Alphonso Hart (July 4, 1830 – December 23, 1910) was a Republican politician from the U.S. State of Ohio who was a U.S. Representative, in the Ohio State Senate, and the 11th lieutenant governor of Ohio.

Biography

Hart was born in Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. 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 Warren, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar 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 Ohio House of Representatives.

He purchased the Democratic newspaper "Portage Sentinel" in Ravenna, Ohio, which he edited until he sold it in 1857. He also practiced in Ravenna. He served as prosecuting attorney for Portage County from 1861 to 1864, when he resigned.

= Early political offices =

He served as member of the Ohio Senate in 1865, 1872, and 1874, and was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1874 to 1876. He served as a Presidential elector for Grant/Wilson in 1872.Smith 1898 : 307

= Congress =

In 1874 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1878 to Hillsboro, Ohio. 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 Republican 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.

= Later career =

He served as Solicitor of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department from 1888 to 1892. He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.

Family

Hart's wife, Phebe, died in 1868.{{cite book |title=Biographical sketches of the state officers, and of the members of the 60th General Assembly of the State of Ohio| first=W Darwin |last=Crabb |year=1872 |location=Columbus |publisher=Ohio State Journal |pages=25–26 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UgwuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25}} They had a son and a daughter.Brennan 1880 : 497

Death and burial

Hart died in 1910 and is interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio US.{{cite web|title=Hart, Alphonso|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000282|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=27 October 2017}}

References

External links

{{cite book|ref=smith|title=History of the Republican Party in Ohio |editor-first=Joseph P |editor-last=Smith |year=1898 |volume=I |publisher=the Lewis Publishing Company |location=Chicago |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA321}}
{{cite book |ref=portrait|title=The portrait gallery and cyclopedia of the distinguished men of Ohio |editor1-first=J. Fletcher |editor1-last=Brennan |volume=2 |year=1880 |location=Cincinnati| publisher=John C. Yorston & Company| page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924091890834/page/n506 497] |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924091890834 }}