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Wm. H.H. Hart; Instructor in Agriculture, Howard University, 1902. William Henry Harrison Hart (1857-1934) was an African American attorney and professor of criminal law at Howard University from 1887 to 1922. He won an important legal case, Hart v. State, (1905). Hart was born in Eufaula, Alabama. His father was Henry Clay Hart, a white slave trader. He was a descendant of Thomas Hart, an English jurist who embarked at Baddow, Essex, England, in 1635.