- Robert Leonard Hazen
Robert Leonard Hazen (
15 October 1808 –15 August 1874 ) was a Canadianlawyer ,judge , andpolitician .Hazen was born in Fredericton,
New Brunswick , and by age 23 had beencalled to the bar of New Brunswick. He had a successful legal career, and by 1846 was appointed a judge on theCourt of the Vice-Admiralty . He first entered politics in 1837 when he was elected to theLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick . UponCanadian Confederation he was appointed to the newCanadian Senate on23 October ,1867 byroyal proclamation . He represented the senatorial division of New Brunswick until his death. Robert Leonard Hazen was the grandson of William Hazen, a prominent New Brunswick businessman and officeholder who was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. [ [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2456&interval=25&&PHPSESSID=qmglq64auon5kescc0m9rj0e55 William Hazen, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, canada.gc.ca] ]References
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5033 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=1950&s=M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/hazen/hazenrl.html The Robert L. Hazen collection from the]University of New Brunswick library
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