Douglas Hazen

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Sir John Douglas Hazen

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KCMG|PC|size=100%}}

| image = John Douglas Hazen.jpg

| caption = Sir Douglas Hazen

| order = 13th Premier of New Brunswick

| term_start = March 24, 1908

| term_end = October 10, 1911

| predecessor = Clifford W. Robinson

| successor = James K. Flemming

| monarch = Edward VII
George V

| lieutenant_governor = Lemuel John Tweedie

| order1 = MLA for Sunbury

| term_start1 = February 18, 1899

| term_end1 = October 10, 1911

| predecessor1 = David Morrow

| successor1 = George A. Perley

| alongside1 = Parker Glasier

| constituency_MP2 = City and County of St. John

| parliament2 = Canadian

| predecessor2 = Charles Nelson Skinner

| successor2 = John Alexander Chesley

| term_start2 = March 5, 1891

| term_end2 = June 23, 1896

| alongside2 = Charles N. Skinner, John A. Chesley

| predecessor3 = John Waterhouse Daniel

| successor3 = District was abolished in 1914

| term_start3 = October 27, 1911

| term_end3 = October 11, 1917

| office4 = Mayor of Fredericton, New Brunswick

| term_start4 = 1888

| term_end4 = 1889

| office5 = Administrator of New Brunswick

| term_start5 = October 31, 1917

| term_end5 = November 6, 1917

| predecessor5 = William Pugsley

| successor5 = William Frederick Todd

| birth_date = {{birth date|1860|6|5|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Oromocto, New Brunswick, British North America

| death_date = {{death date and age |1937|12|27|1860|6|5}}

| death_place = Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

| party = Conservative

| spouse = {{marriage|Ada C. Tibbits|1884}}

| children = Douglas King, James Murray, Kate Elizabeth, Frances Edith and Ada Althea

| alma_mater = University of New Brunswick

| occupation = Lawyer, judge

| profession = Politician

| branch =

| rank = Paymaster

| unit = 5th Company 71st York Battalion of Infantry and 3rd Battalion New Brunswick Regiment{{Cite web|url=https://web.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/hazen/hazenfa.html|title=UNB Archives - John Douglas Hazen Fonds|website=web.lib.unb.ca}}

| serviceyears = 1880-1898

}}

Sir John Douglas Hazen, {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KCMG|PC|sep=,|size=100}} (June 5, 1860 – December 27, 1937) was a politician in New Brunswick, Canada.

Biography

Known by his second name, Douglas, he entered politics in 1885 when he was elected as an alderman for Fredericton City Council. He became mayor in 1888.

Hazen was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative candidate in the 1891 federal election. He lost his seat in the 1896 election that defeated the Conservatives and brought Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals to power.

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1899, and became leader of the opposition. Hazen rebuilt the Conservative Party which had been out of power since 1883. He led the party into government in the 1908 provincial election.

As premier, Hazen fought political corruption and attempts by the federal government to reduce the Maritime provinces' representation in the federal House of Commons.

Douglas Hazen left provincial politics in 1911 to become federal Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service in the government of Sir Robert Borden. During the First World War, he served in the Imperial War Cabinet. Hazen left politics in October 1917 to become Chief Justice of New Brunswick.

For his years of service to The Crown and to Canada, in 1918 Douglas Hazen was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George by King George V.

Hazen died in 1937 at age seventy-seven and was interred in the Fernhill Cemetery in Saint John, New Brunswick. Sir Douglas Hazen Park in Oromocto, New Brunswick and Sir Douglas Hazen Hall at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John are named in his honour.[https://www.unb.ca/welcome/maps/saint_john/show.php?id=14 Campus Map – UNB Saint John] at www.unb.ca

Hazen was the father of King Hazen.

{{CanElec1-by|27 October 1911|On Mr. Daniel's resignation, 17 October 1911}}

Electoral record

References

{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9785}}
[https://archive.today/20070815142857/http://www.hil.unb.ca/archives/finding/hazen/hazenfa.html Brief bio and fonds listing, UNB]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070324135119/http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/Special_Projects/premiers-bios/english/JDHazen.pdf Biography, Government of New Brunswick]
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hazen_john_douglas_16E.html