George Cochrane Hazelton

George Cochrane Hazelton ( born January 3, 1832 in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, † September 4, 1922 ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Hazelton was a younger brother of Gerry Whiting Hazelton (1829-1920), who was also of 1871-1875 the state of Wisconsin in Congress. He was also a nephew of Clark B. Cochrane (1815-1867), who was sitting 1857-1861 for the state of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. George Hazelton attended the common schools and the Pinkerton Academy. Then he was at the Dummer Academy in Massachusetts. In 1858, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1858 admitted to the bar he began in 1863 in Boscobel (Wisconsin ) to work in his new profession. Between 1864 and 1868 was Hazelton District Attorney in Grant County.

Politically, Hazelton member of the Republican Party. Between 1867 and 1871 he was a member of the Senate of Wisconsin; since 1869 he was its president. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the third electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry S. Magoon on March 4, 1877. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 three legislative periods. Since 1881 he was Chairman of the Committee on there Pacific Railroads.

Prior to the elections of 1882 Hazelton was not nominated by his party for another term. He remained in the capital Washington, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1889 and 1893 he was under President Benjamin Harrison United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Then Hazelton has held no other public functions. He died on September 4, 1922 at the age of 90 years during a visit to his birthplace of Chester. He was then buried in Schenectady.

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