Joseph Johnson Hart

Joseph Johnson Hart ( born April 18, 1859 in Nyack, New York, † July 13, 1926 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Hart attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1876, the Charlier Institute in New York City. Then he gave up in 1883 in Nyack publishes two daily newspapers. He then moved to the Pike County in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the lumber business in the real estate industry and in insurance. He was also school director in Milford. Between 1890 and 1900 he published the newspaper Milford Dispatch. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Hart was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Howard Mutchler on March 4, 1895. Since he resigned in 1896 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives sat rigid to 1900 his newspaper work in Milford on. He then moved to New York City, where he devoted himself among other church activities. From 1907 until his death he was employed by the local tax authority. He died on July 13, 1926 and was buried in his birthplace of Nyack.