Early Life and Political Career
Sulzer attended the public schools and graduated from Columbia College. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and commenced practice in New York City.
He was a member from New York County of the New York State Assembly from 1889 to 1894, and was Speaker in 1893. He was also as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912.
Sulzer was elected to the Fifty-fourth United States Congress, and served as a U.S. Representative from New York in the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, to December 31, 1912. In the Sixty-second United States Congress he chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He resigned from Congress effective December 31, 1912, having been elected Governor of New York in November 1912 for the term beginning on January 1, 1913.
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