Hardin Hart
Full Name: Hardin Hart
Date of birth: August 23, 1814
Date of death: October 5, 1883
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Terms of Service top
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Nov 7, 1853 - Nov 5, 1855
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5th
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Greenville / Hunt
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Fannin, Hunt
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Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853
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4th
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Greenville / Hunt
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Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Van Zandt
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Nov 5, 1849 - Nov 3, 1851
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3rd
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Greenville / Hunt
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Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt
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Address, Greenville; home county, Hunt.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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5th Legislature - Senate District No. 3.
Senate Journal.
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Roster of members elect of the 5th Legislature, state elections, 1853. Texas State Gazette [Austin, Tex.], 8/20/1853, p. 3, crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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5th Legislature - 11/7/1853, p. 2. Included in "roll of Senators elected being called by districts, the following Senators appeared, presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats."
Senate Journal.
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5th Legislature - "In part due to the redistricting and the increase in the number of members, the returning senators found themselves a minority of six: James H. Armstrong, Joseph H. Burks, Rufus Doane, Hardin Hart, William T. Scott, and M.D.K. Taylor," pp. 241, 243.
The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861, 1990.
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4th Legislature - Senate District No. 4.
Senate Journal.
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Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act passed Feb. 2, 1853, 4th Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 4,
Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950.
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4th Legislature, Regular Session - 11/3/1851, p. 3. Included in "roll of Senators elected being called by Districts, the following gentlemen appeared, presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats."
Senate Journal.
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3rd Legislature - Senate District No. 3.
Senate Journal.
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Entire Senate went up for reelection due to Senatorial redistricting. Act approved Jan. 16, 1850, 3rd Legislature, ch. 44.
Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950.
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Roster of members elect of the 3rd Legislature, Matthewson, R.C., Texas State Gazette [Austin, Tex.], 9/29/1849, p. 6, crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
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3rd Legislature, Regular Session - 11/5/1849, p. 3. Listed in "roll of Senators being called by Districts, the following gentlemen presented their credentials, took the oath prescribed by the Constitution and their seats."
Senate Journal.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Resolutions and Journal entries |
5th Legislature - Roll of Members, age 38 in 1853, native state Virginia, farmer, postoffice Greenville, Hunt County, p. 457.
House Journal.
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Biographical Sketches |
Biographical sketch and controversial tenure as Dallas district judge, pp. 89-90, resignation from bench on 2/18/1874, "his sixtieth birthday," p. 93. Born 1814 in Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and moved to Texas in 1830s.
Grass-Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880, 1997.
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Other Resources |
Martin D. and Hardin Hart mentioned in "Hangings in Hunt and Hopkins Countries, 1863," pp. 68-80. Includes portrait and account of the hanging of Martin Hart.
Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
Mentioned in "'Blessed with Peace!' War's Bitter Aftermath," pp. 102-136.
Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
Hardin Hart, birth date 8/23/1814, in Hardy County, West Virginia; death date 10/5/1883 in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas; interment in East Mount Cemetery, Greenville, Hunt County.
Find a Grave.
Mentioned in biography of brother, HART, MARTIN D. (1821?-1863).
Handbook of Texas Online.
Relatives: Martin D. Hart and Hardin Hart - brothers, p. 59.
Murder and Mayhem: the War of Reconstruction in Texas, 2003.
Hart served as subassistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867, p. 194,
Overreached on All Sides: the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas Administrators, 1865-1868, 1991.
Mentioned in Ralph A. Wooster, "Membership in the Early Texas Legislatures, 1850-1860," October 1965, pp. 163-173.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Mentioned in 3rd Legislature, p. 196.
The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861, 1990.
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