A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet

Ossian B. Hart

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

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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Florida Photographic Collection:

• Images related to Ossian B. Hart.
  • Search Hart, Ossian Bingley, 1821-1874 in the Florida Photographic Collection.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

• RG 101 Territorial and State Governors (1820-1929)
  • S 32 Territorial and State Governors letterbooks, 1836-1909
  • S 577 State governors' incoming correspondence, 1857-1888
• RG 151 Office of the Secretary of State
  • S 626 Superintendent of Registration Ossian B. Hart correspondence, 1867
• RG 690 State Board of Pardons
  • S 158 Pardon, commutation, and remission decrees, 1869-1909

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.

Related Links:

• Ossian B. Hart, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.
• Ossian B. Hart, Florida Supreme Court Portrait Gallery.