Louis F. Hart

Louis Folwell Hart (4 January 18624 December 1929) was an American politician who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Washington 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.

Biography Hart was born in High Point, Missouri and studied law in Missouri. He married Ella James on 9 February 1881 in Missouri where he practiced law. In 1899 they moved to Tacoma

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 as chairman of the Selective Service Appeals Board for Southwest Washington. Hart was instrumental in getting new road projects through the state legislature

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 Tacoma, Washington. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Washington.