Julius Wechselberg

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Julius Wechselberg
6th district
In office
January 5, 1885 – January 7, 1889
Preceded byEnoch Chase
Succeeded byHerman Kroeger
Wisconsin Circuit Court Clerk for Milwaukee County
In office
January 1, 1877 – January 1, 1883
Preceded byPat Connolly
Succeeded byChristian Paulus
Personal details
Born(1838-03-09)March 9, 1838
Barmen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia
DiedMay 17, 1924(1924-05-17) (aged 86)
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Cecilia Louise Whitney
​
​
(died 1893)​
Children
  • Nellie Francis (Hennekemper)
  • (b. 1863; died 1956)
  • William Rudolph Wechselberg
  • (b. 1868; died 1883)
OccupationReal estate broker

Julius Wechselberg (March 9, 1838 – May 17, 1924) was a

Wisconsin State Senate, representing southern Milwaukee County in the 1885
and 1887 sessions.

Background

Wechselberg was born in Barmen in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia on March 9, 1838, and came to Wisconsin with his parents in 1848 (his father did not want his sons to be conscripted into the Prussian Army). The family initially lived in a log cabin in the Town of Lake. He received a common school and commercial education, and settled at Milwaukee, where he first went to work for a carriage maker at a salary of $30 a year (plus board). He later established the Thos. H. Brown carriage manufacturing works in 1861; he was in the carriage manufacturing business until 1879, then became a real estate dealer. Wechselberg went on to develop what is now the North Grant Boulevard Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Public office

Wechselberg was

clerk of circuit court
of Milwaukee County, serving from 1877 to 1883; during this period, he studied law and became an attorney. He declined re-nomination in 1882 to devote more time to his real estate business.

In 1884, he was elected to a four-year term in the

wards of the city of Milwaukee, as well as the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake and Oak Creek, which roughly comprised the southern half of Milwaukee County
.

In the State Senate, he was assigned to the

Mayor of Milwaukee
earlier that year).

In 1892, Wechselberg was the Republican nominee for

George Brickner due to Brickner's margins in the portions of the district outside Milwaukee County.[3]

He was an alternate delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.

After political office

He was described in a 1922

past masters of the Kilbourn Masonic Lodge (the oldest in Milwaukee).[4]

He died May 17, 1924.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Senate (1884)

Wisconsin Senate, 6th District Election, 1884[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
General Election, November 4, 1884
Republican Julius Wechselberg 5,512 53.94% +9.25%
Democratic Enoch Chase (incumbent) 4,642 45.43% -7.87%
Prohibition Julius Cheyne 64 0.63%
Plurality 870 8.51% -0.09%
Total votes 10,218 100.0% +118.29%
Republican gain from Democratic

U.S. House of Representatives (1892)

Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District Election, 1892[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
General Election, November 8, 1892
Democratic George H. Brickner (incumbent) 17,929 51.67% -15.53%
Republican Julius Wechselberg 15,960 45.99% +15.28%
Prohibition Marcellus Andier 786 2.27% +0.17%
Scattering 25 0.07%
Plurality 1,969 5.67% -30.81%
Total votes 34,700 100.0% +31.67%
Republican hold

References

  1. ^ a b Heg, James E., ed. (1885). "Biographical Sketches" (PDF). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 420, 451, 453. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  2. ^ Timme, Ernst G., ed. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1887 Madison, 1887; pp. 472, 485
  3. ^ a b Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. (1893). "Election Statistics" (PDF). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. pp. 273–275. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. ^ "Old Settlers Tell of Pioneer Days in Milwaukee" Milwaukee Telegram July 23, 1922
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