Jane Janey Briggs Hart was an aviator and widow of the late Senator Philip A. Hart. Hart earned her first pilots license during World War II, and later became the first licensed female helicopter pilot in Michigan.
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..
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