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Edmund Jüssen

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Succeeded by
  
Hermann Raster

Name
  
Edmund Jussen

Political party
  
Republican

Role
  
Politician


Profession
  
Politician

Died
  
1891, Frankfurt, Germany

Religion
  
Christian

Party
  
Republican Party

Edmund Jüssen (1830-February 17, 1891) was an American politician and diplomat.

Jüssen came to the Wisconsin Territory from Germany in 1847. He opened a store in Columbus, Wisconsin. He then moved to Saint Louis, Missouri and back to Columbus, Wisconsin. He studied law and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar. Jüssen served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1862 as a Republican. He served in the 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a colonel in the American Civil War. After the war he practiced law in Chicago, Illinois. He was United States Consul General in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1885. Jüssen was a brother in law of Carl Schurz. He died in Frankfurt, Germany while returning to the United States.

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