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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Ebenezer Hazard</b> (* <a href="15._Januar" title="15. Januar">15. Januar</a> <a href="1744" title="1744">1744</a> in <a href="Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>; † <a href="13._Juni" title="13. Juni">13. Juni</a> <a href="1817" title="1817">1817</a> ebenda) war der dritte <a href="United_States_Postmaster_General" title="United States Postmaster General">Postmaster General</a> der <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">Vereinigten Staaten</a> und der letzte Amtsinhaber, bevor die <a href="Verfassung_der_Vereinigten_Staaten" title="Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten">Verfassung von 1787</a> in Kraft trat.
</p><p>Hazard, dessen Vorfahren aus <a href="Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> stammten, besuchte in Nottingham (<a href="Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>) die Schule. Sein Vater Samuel Hazard war einer der Gründer des <i>College of New Jersey</i>, der späteren <a href="Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>. Dort machte er selbst dann auch 1762 seinen Abschluss, ehe er dann aber noch im selben Jahr auf einem <a href="Freibeuter" class="mw-redirect" title="Freibeuter">Freibeuter</a>schiff anheuerte, auf dem er bis 1765 diente. In der Folge ließ er sich als Buchhändler in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> nieder. 1775 wurde er durch den <a href="Kontinentalkongress" title="Kontinentalkongress">Kontinentalkongress</a> zum ersten Postmeister von New York berufen. Zudem war er als Aufsichtsbeamter (<i>Surveyor</i>) für die Postwege und -ämter zwischen <a href="New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> und <a href="Georgia" title="Georgia">Georgia</a> verantwortlich. 1781 wurde er in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt.
</p><p>Am 28. Januar 1782 trat Ebenezer Hazard die Nachfolge von <a href="Richard_Bache" title="Richard Bache">Richard Bache</a> als <i>Postmaster General</i> an. Nach dem Ende seiner Amtszeit am 29. September 1789 wurde dieser Posten dann zum <a href="Kabinett_der_Vereinigten_Staaten" title="Kabinett der Vereinigten Staaten">Kabinettsrang</a> erhoben. Er kehrte in seine Heimatstadt Philadelphia zurück, wo er ein vielseitig interessiertes und aktives Mitglied der Gemeinde war. In der <a href="American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a>, deren Mitglied er seit 1781 war,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fungierte er als Kurator. Überdies half er, die <i>Insurance Company of North America</i> aufzubauen.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://postalmuseum.si.edu/outofthemails/postwar2.html">Biografische Informationen</a> (englisch)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Ebenezer+Hazard&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced"><i>Member History: Ebenezer Hazard.</i></a> American Philosophical Society,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 26. September 2018</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AEbenezer+Hazard&rft.title=Member+History%3A+Ebenezer+Hazard&rft.description=Member+History%3A+Ebenezer+Hazard&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.amphilsoc.org%2Fmemhist%2Fsearch%3Fcreator%3DEbenezer%2BHazard%26title%3D%26subject%3D%26subdiv%3D%26mem%3D%26year%3D%26year-max%3D%26dead%3D%26keyword%3D%26smode%3Dadvanced&rft.publisher=American+Philosophical+Society"> </span></span>
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