Conrad Meyer Zulick (3 June 1839-1 March 1926) was the Democratic Governor of the Arizona Territory from 2 November 1885 to 8 April 1889, succeeding Frederick Augustus Tritle and preceding Lewis Wolfley.
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Conrad Meyer Zulick was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1839 to a German immigrant father and a mother of Scottish descent. He became a lawyer in New Jersey in June 1860 and campaigned for Stephen A. Douglas in that year's presidential election, and, after serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, he moved to Newark and became the Democratic Party's first Surrogate of Essex County. He served as the county's international revenue collector under President Andrew Johnson, and he became surrogate judge in 1879. Zulick served as a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention, and he moved to Tombstone, Arizona Territory in 1884. President Grover Cleveland appointed Zulick Governor of the Arizona Territory in 1885, and he served until 1889. He was forced to deal with smuggling along the Mexican border, patronage problems, and the escape of the Apache chief Geronimo, and he was replaced after President Benjamin Harrison assumed office. He retired to a farm near Phoenix, and he was elected to the territorial legislature in 1890. He retired to New Jersey in 1895 and died in Asbury Park in 1926.