Truman Hart (December 9, 1784 Farmington,

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- February 7, 1838

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) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Thomas Hart (b. 1749), President of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy and assemblyman in

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, and Mary (Hungerford) Hart (1751–1823). In 1812, he married Susan Carpenter (1795–1875), and they had five children, among them Abbie Louisa Hart (1814–1840) who married Congressman Theron R. Strong. Truman Hart was a member of the

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( Ontario Co.) in 1820-21. He was a member of the

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(7th D.) from 1826 to 1829, sitting in the 49th, 50th, 51st and

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s. He was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. Congressman

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was his nephew. State Senator

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was his brother.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 126ff, 141, 197 and 279; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
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