Marcel Hart Explained

Marcel Hart
Office1:Member of the Territorial Assembly
Term1:1962–1969
Successor1:Sam Koua
Party:Tahitian Democratic Union
Constituency1:Leeward Islands
Office2:Mayor of Uturoa
Term2:1959–1969
Predecessor2:Marcel Tixier
Successor2:Philippe Brotherson
Birth Place:Papeete, French Oceania
Birth Date:5 July 1909

Marcel Hart (5 July 1909 – 27 January 1969) was a French Polynesian politician. He became Mayor of Uturoa in 1959 and a member of the Territorial Assembly in 1962, holding both positions until his death in 1969.

Biography

Hart was born in Papeete in 1909.[1] He was a shipowner, owning Tamarii Raiatea until 1966, when he replaced it with Temehani.[1]

He entered politics in 1946, becoming a member of the municipal council of Uturoa. In 1959 he was elected mayor of the town.[1] In the 1962 elections he was elected to the Territorial Assembly in the Leeward Islands constituency, representing the Tahitian Democratic Union.[2] He was re-elected in 1967, the same year in which his wife Alice died.

In January 1969 Hart died in an industrial accident; while visiting a road-building site, he began operating a bulldozer and a ground collapse led to it falling into a ravine.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Publications de la Société des océanistes, Issue 36, p251
  2. http://histoire.assemblee.pf/articles.php?id=665 Les élus de l’assemblée territoriale
  3. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-327780190/view?partId=nla.obj-327838091#page/n139/mode/1up Mr. Marcel Hart