Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Hazard ya yi aiki na tsawon shekaru uku a cikin Rhode Island House of Representatives, ya lashe zaben a matsayin wakilin jihar a 1851, 1854 da 1880. Ya kuma kasance sanata na jihar daga 1866 zuwa 1867. A shekara ta 1856, ya kasance daya daga cikin wakilan Rhode Island zuwa
taron kafa jam'iyyar Republican. Shekaru hudu bayan haka ya kasance wakili ne a taron Jam'iyyar Republican na shekara ta 1860.