Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hazard ya yi aiki na 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 ɗaya daga cikin wakilan Rhode Island zuwa taron kafa
na jam'iyyar Republican. Shekaru hudu bayan haka ya kasance wakili ne a taron Jam'iyyar Republican na shekara ta 1860.