sentences:  Hart was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879), but did not seek reelection in 1878.Upon his return to Albion, Hart served as a member of the Village of Albion Board of Trustees (1879 - 1886), a member of the Albion Board of Education, and one of the first trustees of the Albion Library Association.Founder and president of the Rochester (New York) Post-Express in 1882, he was a principal stockholder in that company until 1892.