Benjamin Hazard (1774–1841) was a Rhode Island legislator, attorney and member of the Hartford Convention. Hazard was born on September 9, 1774, in

Middletown, Rhode Island Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 17,075 at the 2020 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown". History Vari ...

. He graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in the class of 1792 and later married Harriet Lyman, daughter of

Daniel Lyman Daniel Lyman (1756–1830) was a New England soldier, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and member of the secessionist Hartford Convention. Lyman was born in Durham, Connecticut to Thomas Lyman. While attending Yale College, Lym ...

and Mary Wanton. Hazard then studied the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1796 and started a law practice in

Newport, Rhode Island Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, ...

. In 1809, he was first elected a Representative from Newport and served as Speaker of the House from October 1816, to May 1818. Hazard retired from the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1840. He died in his Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House on March 10, 1841. Hazard was an active member of Trinity Church in Newport.''Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island'' By George Champlin Mason Published by G.C. Mason, 1890 Original from the New York Public Library Digitized Feb 28, 2008, pg. 20

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