Jerome T. Hart was a Democratic member of the Michigan Senate from 1965 through 1990.

[1] The 4th of 5 children born to Bernard and Florence Hart in Saginaw in 1932, Hart was an unsuccessful candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives in 1958 and an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1962 and 1972.

Hart won election to the Michigan Senate in 1964 and served until his defeat by Jon Cisky in 1990.

Hart won the election in what was one of the most heated Senate races in the state.

[2] Hart died at home on January 20, 1995 of cardiac arrest aged 62.