Lured by the frontier, Hart and his wife moved to
Snohomish, Washington in the late 1880s, where he practiced law. In 1899 they moved to Tacoma Winning the Republican nomination in 1912, Hart was elected as Washington's seventh
Lieutenant Governor and he was reelected in 1916. During World War I Hart served as chairman of the Selective Service Appeals Board for Southwest Washington. Hart was instrumental in getting new road projects through the state legislature He did not have a Lieutenant Governor from his election as governor until
William J. Coyle was appointed to the office in 1921. He is the last governor of the state, to date, that did not have a Lieutenant Governor at any time during his governorship. Hart did not run for reelection in 1924, but instead retired to Tacoma where he practiced law, and served as the president of the
State Good Roads Association. ==Death==