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Ossian B. Hart

Party Affiliation

Republican

Lt. Governor

Marcellus Stearns (1873-1874)

First Lady

Catherine Smith Campbell Hart

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:
Jonathan Gibbs
(1868-1873);
Samuel B. McLin
(1873-1877)
Comptroller:
Robert H. Gamble
(1868-1873);
Clayton Cowgill
(1873-1877)
Treasurer:
Simon Barclay Conover
(1868-1873);
Charles H. Foster
(1873-1877)
Commissioner of Immigration:
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Attorney General:
William A. Cocke
(1873-1877)
Adjutant General:
John Varnum
(1870-1877)
Supt. of Public Instruction:
Jonathan C. Gibbs
(1873-1874)
Surveyor General
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Ossian B. Hart

Ossian B. Hart
(1821-1874)

Tenth governor:
January 7, 1873 to March 18, 1874

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Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

Other Repositories:

  • Letters, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida

Published Materials:

  • Brown, Canter. Ossian B. Hart: Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana University Press, 1997.

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