High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Charles Hart (12 June 1877, Davison, Michigan ? 4 July 1971, Sharon, Connecticut) was an admiral of the United States Navy, whose service extended from the Spanish-American War through World War II. Following his retirement from the Navy, he served briefly as a United States Senator from Connecticut. In the years preceding World War I, Hart filled a variety of sea and shore duty billets: as a junior officer in battleships, torpedo boats, and submarines; as an instructor at the Naval Academy; as aide to an Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and as commander of the Pacific Torpedo Flotilla. By the spring of 1917, Hart was commanding the cruiser Chicago (CA-14) and Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., while also acting as Chief of Staff to the Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet.