US Congressman. He was born one of ten children (Mary Elvira Izlar was born in 1831, Cornelia Frances Izlar was born in 1835, Benjamin Pou Izlar was born in 1837, William Valmore Izlar was born in 1840, Lauriston Theodore Izlar was born in 1840, Adolphus Madison Izlar was born in 1844, Laura Josephine Izlar was born in 1849, Jacob Alonzo Izlar was born in 1851, and Thomas Alexander Izlar was born in 1855), to William Henry Izlar and Julia Elizabeth Allison Pou Izlar near Orangeburg, South Carolina. He was educated in local common public schools and later attended and graduated from the prestigious Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, in 1855. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced to practicing law in the State of South Carolina. On February 24, 1859, he married Frances Mary Ann Lovell in Orangeburg, South Carolina, and the couple would have nine children together (William Lovell Izlar was born in 1860, James Edward Izlar was born in 1861, Julia Caroline Izlar was born in 1865, Roberts Poinsett Izlar was born in 1867, Milton Elliott Izlar was born in 1871, Sydney Oswald Izlar was born in 1873, Mary Frances Izlar was born in 1875, Anne Lillian Izlar was born in 1877, and Marie Virginia Izlar was born in 1879). Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he put his law practice on hold and signed up to fight for his country. He was enlisted as a First Lieutenant in the Confederate States Army, Company A, 1st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (Hagood's). He was also commissioned an Officer in Company G, 25th Infantry Regiment, and was later made a Full Captain. He participated in several battles and with nearly all of his regiment he was captured when Fort Fisher surrendered to the Federal Army. He was held captive at Fort Columbus on Governor's Island, New York, and was finally paroled in March of 1865. Following his military service, he returned to Orangeburg, South Carolina, only to find that the city was being overrun with federal troops and his law office was being used as a marshall's office. In 1866, he finally succeeded in getting his law office back and then continued his law practice with his partner, the Honorable Samuel Dibble for the next eleven years. He then entered politics and served as a Member of the South Carolina State Senate from Orangeburg County from 1880 to 1890. He was also President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate from 1884 to 1889. He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884, and as a Circuit Court Judge in the State of South Carolina in 1889. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative William Hiram Brawley on February 12, 1894. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served South Carolina's 1st District (Fifty-Third Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1894 to 1895. He was not a Candidate for renomination in 1894. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1895, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative William Elliott. Following his term in the United States Congress, he once again returned to Orangeburg, South Carolina, and resumed his practice of law until his retirement in 1907. He had also been a successful financier and was a member of several prominent fraternities. His wife Frances passed away during this time on August 2, 1902, at the age of 62, in Milledgeville, Georgia, and he married for a second time to Marianne Gendron Palmer Allston on November 1, 1906, in Washington, D.C. He passed away following a short illness on May 26, 1912, at the age of 79, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His funeral was held at the Church of the Redeemer and he was buried in the Episcopal Cemetery in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His second wife passed away on December 6, 1931, at the age of 73, and she was buried in Darien, Georgia.