James F. Izlar

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= James F. Izlar

|image name= James Ferdinand Izlar.png

|state1 = South Carolina

|district1 = {{ushr|South Carolina|1|1st}}

|term_start1 = April 12, 1894

|term_end1 = March 3, 1895

|predecessor1 = William H. Brawley

|successor1 = William Elliott

|office2 = President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate

|term2 = November 25, 1884 – December 18, 1889

|predecessor2 = William Wallace Harllee

|successor2 = Henry Adams Meetze

|office3 = Member of the South Carolina Senate from Orangeburg County

|term_start3 = November 23, 1880

|term_end3 = December 18, 1889

|predecessor3 = Samuel L. Duncan

|successor3 = James William Stokes

|birth_name = James Ferdinand Izlar

| birth_date= November 25, 1832

| birth_place=Orangeburg, South Carolina

| death_date={{death date and age|1912|5|26|1832|11|25}}

| death_place=Orangeburg, South Carolina

|resting_place=Orangeburg, South Carolina

|party = Democratic

| profession= lawyer, politician, judge

|alma_mater = Emory College

|signature = Signature of James Ferdinand Izlar.png

|}}

James Ferdinand Izlar (November 25, 1832 – May 26, 1912) was an American lawyer, Confederate veteran of the Civil War, and politician who served part of one term as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina in 1894 and early 1895.{{Cite web|title=Bioguide Search|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/I000054|access-date=2022-01-29|website=bioguide.congress.gov}} He was also a slave owner.{{Cite news|last1=Weil|first1=Julie Zauzmer|last2=Blanco|first2=Adrian|last3=Dominguez|first3=Leo|title=More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/|access-date=2022-01-29|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en}}{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-27|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-29}}

Early life and education

Born near Orangeburg, South Carolina, Izlar attended the common schools.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA505 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=IV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=505 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-12-08 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, in 1855. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858.

Civil War

He served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. After the war, he resumed the practice of law in Orangeburg.

Political career

He served as member of the State senate from 1880 to 1890, and was elected by the general assembly to be judge of the first judicial circuit in 1889. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884.

= Congress =

Izlar was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Brawley and served from April 12, 1894, to March 3, 1895. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894.

Later career and death

After leaving Congress, he again engaged in the practice of law in Orangeburg until 1907, when he retired. He died at his home in Orangeburg on May 26, 1912, and was interred in the Episcopal Cemetery.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64910138/south-carolina-news/ |title=South Carolina News |newspaper=Yorkville Enquirer |page=2 |date=1912-05-28 |access-date=2020-12-08 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64910224/funeral-of-judge-izlar/ |title=Funeral of Judge Izlar |newspaper=The Newberry Weekly Herald |page=3 |date=1912-05-31 |access-date=2020-12-08 |via=Newspapers.com}}