Ossian B. Hart

Ossian B. Hart
Ossian Bingley Hart
10th Governor of Florida
In office
January 7, 1873 – March 18, 1874
Preceded by Harrison Reed
Succeeded by Marcellus Stearns
Personal details
Born January 17, 1821
Jacksonville, Florida
Died March 18, 1874 (aged 53)
Jacksonville, Florida
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Catherine Smith Campbell Hart

Ossian Bingley Hart (January 17, 1821 – March 18, 1874) was the tenth Governor of the U.S. state of Florida, and the first governor of Florida who was born in the state. Born in Jacksonville to Isaiah Hart, one of the city's founders, he was raised on his father's plantation along the St. Johns River. He was lawyer in Jacksonville. He moved to a farm near Fort Pierce in 1843. in the 1845, became Florida State Representative for St. Lucie County. In 1846 he moved to Key West where he resumed his law practice. In 1856, he moved to Tampa.

Despite his upbringing, Hart was a Republican and openly opposed secession from the United States, causing some difficult times for him during the American Civil War. Following the war, he helped reestablish the governments of the state and of the city of Jacksonville. In 1868, he was appointed a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. In 1870, he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress, only to be elected governor two years later on January 7, 1873. He appointed Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs as Florida's first African American Superintendent of Public Instruction. Following the campaign, he fell ill with pneumonia and died in Jacksonville. He was succeeded by lieutenant governor Marcellus Stearns, Florida's last Republican governor until 1967.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Harrison Reed
Governor of Florida
January 7, 1873 to March 18, 1874
Succeeded by
Marcellus L. Sterns

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