{{Short description|American politician (1832–1922)}} {{for|his son, the actor and playwright|George Cochrane Hazelton (actor)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = George Cochrane Hazelton |image = George Cochrane Hazelton (Wisconsin Congressman).jpg |alt = |order = 1st |office = Attorney General of the District of Columbia |appointer = Benjamin Harrison |term_start = 1889 |term_end = 1893 |predecessor = ''Position established'' |successor = Sidney J. Thomas |state1 = Wisconsin |district1 = {{ushr|Wisconsin|3|3rd}} |term_start1 = March 4, 1877 |term_end1 = March 3, 1883 |predecessor1 = Henry S. Magoon |successor1 = Burr W. Jones |state2 = Wisconsin |state_senate2 = Wisconsin |district2 = 16th |term_start2 = January 6, 1868 |term_end2 = January 1, 1872 |predecessor2 = John H. Rountree |successor2 = John Chandler Holloway |party = Republican |birth_date = January 3, 1832 |birth_place = Chester, New Hampshire, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1922|9|4|1832|1|3}} |death_place = Chester, New Hampshire, U.S. |resting_place = Vale Cemetery, {{nowrap|Schenectady, New York}} |spouse = {{marriage|Ellen Van Antwerp||1884|end=died}} |children = {{unbulleted list | George Cochrane Hazelton Jr. | John Hampden Hazelton }} |relatives = {{unbulleted list | Gerry Whiting Hazelton (brother) | Clark Betton Cochrane (nephew) }} |alma_mater = Union College |profession = Lawyer, politician |signature = Signature of George Cochrane Hazelton (1832–1922).png }} '''George Cochrane Hazelton''' (January 3, 1832{{spaced ndash}}September 4, 1922) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district from 1877 to 1883. He was later the first appointed attorney general of the District of Columbia.
==Early life and education== Born in Chester, New Hampshire, Hazelton attended the district schools and prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire and Dummer Academy in Massachusetts. Hazelton graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1858.<ref name=History>{{cite web|title=George Cochrane Hazelton|url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2502&search_term=george|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|accessdate=21 February 2014}}</ref> He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Malone, New York.
==Career== Hazelton then settled at Boscobel, Wisconsin, where he became prosecuting attorney of Grant County, Wisconsin, from 1864 to 1868. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1867 and was reelected in 1869 and served as president pro tempore.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hazelton|first=George|title=History of Grant County, Wisconsin 1881|year=1881 |publisher=Chicago Western Historical Company|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028871494#page/n5/mode/2up}}</ref>
Elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh congresses, representing Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district.<ref name=History/> He was unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 and settled in Washington, D.C., where he practiced law and served as the attorney general for the District of Columbia during the Harrison administration.
Hazelton was among a large group of congressmen who advocated doctrines of racial superiority. He argued against the immigration of "unworthy" races, and said of the Chinese "I know that if the segment of her population now upon the Pacific shores is the standard and measure of her home civilization, it is of the lowest order.”<ref>13 Cong. Rec. 2209-2210</ref> {{stack|thumb|Ellen Van Antwerp}}
==Personal life== Hazelton was son of William and Mercy Jane Hazelton. His older brother, Gerry Whiting Hazelton, was also a member of Congress, and a prominent lawyer in Wisconsin. His nephew, Clark Betton Cochrane, was a member of Congress from New York.
He married Ellen Van Antwerp and they had two sons, George Jr. and John Hampden.
===Death=== Hazelton died in Chester, New Hampshire, on September 4, 1922, at the age of 90. He is interred at Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, New York.
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==External links== * {{CongBio|H000418}} * {{Find a Grave|8945| George Cochrane Hazelton }}
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