Robert Hazard (politician)

Robert Hazard (12 September 1702 – 1751)[1] was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

In 1734, he became a Deputy in Rhode Island's General Assembly, which position he held through 1749.

[1] In 1750, he was elected Deputy Governor of the colony, serving for less than a full one-year term, from May 1750 until his death in 1751.

[1] Hazard lived at Point Judith, at the southern extreme of South Kingstown, on land that he inherited from his father.

[3] Together, they were the parents of nine children, including Joseph, Elizabeth, Esther, Stephen, Robert, Samuel, Hannah, Joshua, Stanton.