Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Andrew Jackson Hart

Full Name: Andrew Jackson Hart
Birth date: May 14, 1832
Death date: December 1, 1896

Terms of Service

House, 15th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ Legislature
4/18/1876 - 1/14/1879
Democrat
House, 14th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislature
1/13/1874 - 4/18/1876
Democrat

(1) Representative apportionment - Ordinance adopted by Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas, 1875. "Sixty-ninth District - The counties of Bosque, Somerville and Hood shall elect one representative; Coryell to be the returning county." University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Barnardsville, Hood County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . . 1874.
(3) HART, ANDREW JACKSON (1832–1896). "At the cessation of hostilities he [Hart] returned to Texas, staying briefly in Johnson County before settling a 650-acre homestead in the vicinity of Glenrose, Hood County, in December 1869." Handbook of Texas Online .
(4) SOMERVELL COUNTY. "During most of the 1850s and early 1860s the Barnard's Mill settlement was a part of Johnson County. In 1866 the area was included in a new county, Hood, marked off entirely from Johnson County. Somervell County was established in 1875, when residents in southern Hood and northern Bosque counties petitioned for a new county because of their separation from markets and seats of government." Handbook of Texas Online .
(5) GLEN ROSE, TX. Notes town of Barnard's Mill began about 1859 on Charles Barnard's land in Hood County; then, at 1872 town meeting, residents agreed on the name Glen Rose, post office opened there in 1874, and Glen Rose became county seat of the newly formed Somervell County in 1875. Handbook of Texas Online .
(6) Hood County. House Journal .
(7) Glen Rose, Somervell County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(8) Glen Rose, Hood County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(9) Somervell County. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992 1992.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. A.J. Hart, State Preservation Board
Photograph. A.J. Hart, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Capt. A.J. Hart listed in Glen Rose deaths, The Houston daily post, 12/10/1896, mailable edition, image 4, end of 6th col. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers .
Census of 1880 - Andrew J. Hart, Somervell County, age 48, born circa 1832 in Arkansas, farmer; spouse Theodosia, age 45, born in Tennessee. FamilySearch .
Andrew J. Hart, birth date 5/14/1832 in Scott County, Arkansas, death date 12/1/1896, burial in White Church Cemetery, Glen Rose, Somervell County with wife Theodocia A. Hart. Find a Grave .
HART, ANDREW JACKSON (1832–1896). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, A.J. Hart, pp. 701-703. History of Texas Supplemented with Biographical Mention of Many Prominent Persons and Families of the State, Central Texas 1896.
Biographical sketch, p. 137. Born in Arkansas, "lives with his family in Somerville county, Texas." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.