Alan L. Hart
Hart attended Albany College (now Lewis & Clark College), then transferred with classmate and romantic partner Eva Cushman to Stanford University for the 1911–1912 school year before going back to Albany. Hart graduated from Albany College in 1912, and in 1917 obtained a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Oregon Medical Department in Portland (now Oregon Health & Science University); during this period, Hart also returned to Northern California to attend courses in the summer of 1916 at the Stanford University School of Medicine, then located in San Francisco. Hart was deeply unhappy that the medical degree was issued in his female name, limiting his opportunities to use it in any future life under a male name. College records show that at least one of the senior staff was sympathetic; his graduation records were indexed internally with the suffix "(aka Robert L.), M.D.". Nonetheless, Hart knew that if he presented himself as Robert, any prospective employer checking his credentials would discover the female name or find no records for him at all. After graduation he worked for a short while (presenting as a woman) at a Red Cross hospital in Philadelphia.
Gordon L. S. Hart
Hart entered provincial politics in the 1960 election, winning the Halifax County Dartmouth riding by 605 votes. He was defeated by Irvin William Akerley when he ran for re-election in 1963. Hart returned to politics in the 1967 election, winning the new Dartmouth North riding. He resigned on September 30, 1968, when he was appointed to the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. In 1978, he was elevated to the Appeals Division, where he served until his retirement in 2000. He died in Dartmouth on September 28, 2010.