Julius Goldzier (January 20, 1854 – January 20, 1925) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Austria Empire, Goldzier attended the public schools of Vienna and immigrated to the United States in 1866, where he settled in New York. He studied law and was

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. He moved to Chicago in 1872 and was involved in several notable cases, including that of the anarchist John Hroneck. He was a director of the Chicago German Society as well as the director and secretary of the German-language newspaper the ''Abendpost''. He served as member of the city council of Chicago as an alderman from the 22nd ward from 1890 to 1892. Goldzier was elected as a

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to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress and was again a member of the Chicago city council in 1899. He died in

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, January 20, 1925 on his 71st birthday. Interment location unknown. Goldzier was Illinois' first

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congressman.Stone, Kurt F. "''The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members'', (2011).
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