Les Hart (politician)

Leslie Rupert Hart (28 December 1909 – 7 January 2002)[1] was a politician in South Australia.

He was the elder son of Edith R. Hart (née Lashmar) and Rupert Rufus Hart, sheep breeder of "Glen Devon", Two Wells.

[3] and with a brother went into partnership with their father as R. R. Hart and Sons,[4] who like fellow parliamentarian Maynard Boyd Dawkins, were successful breeders of Dorset Horn sheep.

He was elected a Liberal candidate to a Midland district seat in the Legislative Council in October 1962 and resigned in March 1973.

Hart married Lily Edith Poole of Torrensville on 11 October 1941.