Marcel Hart

Marcel Hart
Member of the Territorial Assembly
In office 1962–1969
Succeeded by	Sam Koua
Constituency	Leeward Islands
Mayor of Uturoa
In office 1959–1969
Preceded by	Marcel Tixier
Succeeded by	Philippe Brotherson
Personal details
Born	5 July 1909 Papeete, French Oceania
Died	27 January 1969(1969-01-27) (aged 59)
Political party	Tahitian Democratic Union

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.[3]

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]

References

1. Publications de la Société des océanistes, Issue 36, p251
2. Les élus de l’assemblée territoriale Assembly of French Polynesia
3. Mr. Marcel Hart Pacific Islands Monthly, March 1969, p130