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Samuel Hart
c. 1747 – 1810MerchantAmericas · 1747Most named place: Liverpool
Samuel Hart was a merchant and politician in the British colony of Nova Scotia. What is known about him is that he has been a dry goods merchant in Halifax in the 1780s, and from 1793 to 1799 Hart was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Liverpool Township, thus becoming the first Jew to sit in a legislative body in territory that was later to become Canada.