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|alma_mater=West Texas A&M University (Canyon, Texas)
|alma_mater=West Texas A&M University (Canyon, Texas)
[[University of Texas]] Law School
[[University of Texas]] Law School
|spouse=Audrine Smith Hazlewood (married 1927-1989, his death)
|spouse=Audrine Smith Hazlewood<br> (married 1927-1989, his death)
|footnotes='''Note''':<br>
|footnotes='''Note''':<br>
*Hazlewood is the father of the farm-to-market road system in Texas, which converted rural dirt roads to asphalt.
*Hazlewood is the father of the farm-to-market road system in Texas, which converted rural dirt roads to asphalt.
==Biography==
==Biography==
Hazlewood was born at Old Fort Chadbourne (established 1852) near Bronte in Coke County, [[Texas]], located northeast of [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]]. Chadbourne is now a [[ghost town]] accessible to the south of Sweetwater in Nolan County. As a boy, Hazlewood relocated with his parents, William Temple Hazlewood and the former Lula Douglas, and four brothers to a farm near Canyon in Randall County, south of Amarillo. He graduated from West Texas A&M University (then West Texas State Teachers College) in Canyon. In 1926, he procured his legal degree through the [[University of Texas]] Law School in [[Austin]]. In 1927, he married the former Audrine Smith (1902-1991). He returned to Amarillo to practice law and was elected [[district attorney]] during the 1930s.<ref name=agn/>
Hazlewood was born at Old Fort Chadbourne (established 1852) near Bronte in Coke County, [[Texas]], located northeast of [[San Angelo, Texas|San Angelo]]. Chadbourne is now a [[ghost town]] accessible to the south of Sweetwater in Nolan County. As a boy, Hazlewood relocated with his parents, William Temple Hazlewood (1866-1950) and the former Lula Douglas (1873-1929), and four brothers to a farm near Canyon in Randall County, south of Amarillo. He graduated from West Texas A&M University (then West Texas State Teachers College) in Canyon. In 1926, he procured his legal degree through the [[University of Texas]] Law School in [[Austin]]. In 1927, he married the former Audrine Smith (1902-1991). He returned to Amarillo to practice law and was elected [[district attorney]] during the 1930s.<ref name=agn/>
Having first been elected to the state Senate in 1940, he was undefeated and mostly unopposed until his retirement in 1971. He was succeeded by his fellow Democrat [[Max R. Sherman]], then an Amarillo lawyer. In the 1970 [[general election]], Sherman defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], an oilman and two-term state representative from Canadian in Hemphill County, also in the Panhandle. In addition to his legal duties, Hazlewood operated a dairy [[farm]] and maintained [[real estate]] interests in Austin. He was a breeder and trainer of Tennessee walking horses.<ref name=agn/>
Having first been elected to the state Senate in 1940, he was undefeated and mostly unopposed until his retirement in 1971. He was succeeded by his fellow Democrat [[Max R. Sherman]], then an Amarillo lawyer. In the 1970 [[general election]], Sherman defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], an oilman and two-term state representative from Canadian in Hemphill County, also in the Panhandle. In addition to his legal duties, Hazlewood operated a dairy [[farm]] and maintained [[real estate]] interests in Austin. He was a breeder and trainer of Tennessee walking horses.<ref name=agn/>