Roswell Hart

Roswell Hart ( * August 4, 1824 in Rochester, New York, † April 20, 1883 ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roswell Hart completed his preliminary studies. In 1843 he graduated from Yale College in New Haven (Connecticut). He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1847. At that time raged the Mexican -American War. Hart went to stores. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1864 for the 39th Congress was hard in the 28th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Freeman Clarke on March 4, 1865. He suffered in his renewed candidacy in 1866, a defeat and then retired after the March 3, 1867 from the Congress of.

From 1869 to 1876 he was Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service for New York and Pennsylvania. He died on April 20, 1883 in Rochester, and was then buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery.