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Julius Goldzier

(1854 - 1925)

GOLDZIER, Julius, a Representative from Illinois; born in Vienna, Austria, January 20, 1854; attended the public schools of Vienna; immigrated to the United States in 1866 and settled in New York; studied law and was admitted to the bar; moved to Chicago in 1872 and commenced the practice of law; member of the city council of Chicago 1890-1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; practiced law in Chicago, Ill.; again a member of the Chicago city council in 1899; died in Chicago, January 20, 1925; interment in Graceland Cemetery.


Sources: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress