Jane Hart

Jane Hart (born July 16, 1922) was involved in numerous political issues and contributed years of service in the mentally/physically challenged arenas in the state of Kentucky.

She married Ken Hart, a radio station manager and newspaperman, and had two sons and a daughter in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Hart authored many articles on the subject as well as two books titled, Let's Think About Time and Where's Hannah.

In 1968 Jane Hart co-founded and also served as chairwoman emeritus of the Kentucky Disabilities Coalition.

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Jane Briggs Hart

Jane “Janey” Briggs Hart (October 21, 1921 – June 5, 2015) was an aviator and widow of the late Senator Philip A. Hart. Hart earned her first pilot's license during World War II, and later became the first licensed female helicopter pilot in Michigan.

In the early 1960s, Hart was chosen to participate in the Lovelace Foundation's Woman in Space Program, a privately funded project designed to test women pilots for astronaut fitness by subjecting them to the same physical tests developed by NASA for astronauts. At the age of 40, Hart became one of only 13 women (later dubbed the Mercury 13) to qualify.

In 2007, Hart was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.

Early life

Hart was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 21, 1921, to businessman Walter O. Briggs and Jane Cameron. She attended the Academies of the Sacred Heart in Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Torresdale, Pennsylvania, and Manhattanville College in New York. In 1970, at age 49, she received her BA in anthropology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C..