Izlar, James F
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1832, in Orangeburg county, S. C. He was a graduate of Emory college. He served as an officer in the confederate army; was state senator for ten years, and was for eight years, during his service in the senate, the president pro tempore of that body. In 1889 he was elected by the general assembly judge of the first judicial circuit, and served as such until 1894, when he was elected to congress. He has always been an uncompromising democrat, and for a number of years was the chairman of the state democratic executive committee. He was a delegate to the national democratic convention of 1884.
He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy, and took his seat in congress April 5, 1894.