Senator Arthur Sargent Hazelton View All Years

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Arthur Sargent Hazelton

Pottawattamie County

ARTHUR SARGENT HAZELTON was born at Plymouth, New Hampshire, November 7, 1855, and died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 4, 1924. His parents were Charles and Sarah D. (Sargent) Hazelton. He attended Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire, and Dartmouth College, being graduated from the latter in 1881. He read law for a time in the office of Blair, Burling & Adams, the senior member of the firm being United States Senator Henry W. Blair. Alternating between reading law and teaching, he removed to Council Bluffs in September, 1884, taught one year, read law a year in the office of Jacob Sims, was admitted to practice in 1886 and became a member of the firm of Mayne & Hazelton. He was chairman of the Pottawattamie County Republican Central Committee seven years, was city solicitor of Council Bluffs from 1892 to 1898, was elected senator in 1899 and served in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth general assemblies, was appointed postmaster by President McKinley in June, 1902, reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1906, and by President Taft in 1910, and served until 1914.

Senate District 19