James L. Hart

James L. Hart AKA John Hart is a United States politician. He ran for the House of Representatives for Tennessee's Eighth District in 2004; he lost to incumbent Democrat John Tanner. Hart himself ran as a Republican, although the Republican Party disavowed him. Although he ran for Congress in the state of Tennessee, his campaign listed a Kentucky address.

He has said that on the campaign trail, he wears a bulletproof vest and carries a gun.

Hart believes in withdrawal from NAFTA and an end to usury, and in his words, "workers' rights generally." However, his most controversial and well-publicized political belief is his support for eugenics. He claims that certain races are "favored races" that produce high accomplishments such as the automobile, and that others are not. He wants to conduct a war on "poverty genes," which he claims reside, among other places, in Detroit. For his belief in eugenics, the Tennessee Republican leadership wished to have nothing to do with him and backed a competing write-in candidate, Dennis Bertrand.

Hart received 26 percent of the vote (second place) in a largely self-financed campaign.

He ran again in 2006, and Republican state leadership again condemned his candidacy.