David Hazzard was an American merchant and politician from Milton, in Sussex County, Delaware.
18 Facts About David Hazzard
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David Hazzard was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, then the National Republican Party, and finally the Whig Party.
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David Hazzard served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware, and as an associate justice of the Delaware Superior Court.
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John David Hazzard was said to have helped ferry the Continental Army across the Delaware River the night before the Battle of Trenton in 1776.
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David Hazzard married Elizabeth Collins, sister of Governor John Collins on July 12,1804, and they had five children, Ann, Maria, John Alexander, William Asbury, and David.
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David Hazzard was appointed a lieutenant of Delaware militia on October 14,1807, but resigned May 28,1808.
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On July 4,1812, with the coming of the War of 1812, Hazzard was appointed an ensign in the Grenadiers attached to Captain Peter T Wright's First Company of the 8th Regiment of Delaware militia.
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All the while David Hazzard was running the family mercantile business in Milton, which now included a granary.
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David Hazzard was a member of the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, a minority in Delaware, and particularly in Sussex County.
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David Hazzard first gained an appointment as justice of the peace and served from 1812 until 1817.
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David Hazzard ran again in 1826, and lost, this time to Federalist candidate, Charles Polk, Jr.
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David Hazzard defeated the Jacksonian Democratic Party candidate, Allen Thompson of Wilmington, and served one term from January 19,1830 until January 15,1833.
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David Hazzard was the last governor to serve under the Constitution of 1792.
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David Hazzard was the only person to have been appointed to a position on the Superior Court without a formal legal education.
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David Hazzard was a member of the 1852 State Constitutional Convention, but resigned protesting the manner in which the delegates were selected.
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David Hazzard died at Milton, and is buried there in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery.
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Hazzard's son, John Alexander Hazzard served in the Delaware Senate from 1855 through 1858, and another son, David, was a veteran of the Civil War.
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David Hazzard was an active member of the Methodist Church and as such was a lifelong advocate for social reforms such as the elimination of Delaware's antiquated system of imprisonment for debt.