
David Hazzard (18 May 1781-8 July 1864) was the National Republican Governor of Delaware from 19 January 1830 to 15 January 1833, succeeding Charles Polk Jr. and preceding Caleb P. Bennett.
Biography[]
David Hazzard was born in Milton, Delaware in 1781, and he served in the state militia during the War of 1812 and ran a granary in Milton after the war. He served as a Democratic-Republican justice of the peace from 1812 to 1817, as the National Republican Governor of Delaware from 1830 to 1833 (overseeing internal improvements in the state, and banning the entry of free Blacks to the state after a slave uprising in Seaford), in the State Senate from 1835 to 1839, and on the superior court from 1844 to 1847. He died in 1864.