Alphonso Hart

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, an Ohio state senator, 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.

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.

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. They had a son and a daughter.

Death and burial Hart died in 1910 and is interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio US.