Biography

Bielawski was born on January 16, 1867 to Joseph and Teresa Bielawski in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Eventually he would move to the United States

United States

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, living in Cudahy, Wisconsin

Cudahy, Wisconsin

Cudahy is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 18,429 at the 2000 census.-History:Originally known as the Buckhorn Settlement, it was renamed in the late 1800s when Patrick Cudahy purchased 700 acres of land in the Town of Lake, two miles from the Milwaukee city...

 and Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

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 before moving to Hamtramck, Michigan

Hamtramck, Michigan

Hamtramck is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,423. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion of the western border that touches the similarly surrounded city of Highland Park...

 and Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

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. On June 12, 1894 he married Hattie Banaszynska.

Career

Bielawski was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican primary for a seat in the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1926. He eventually would be elected, serving from 1929 to 1930 and from 1935 to 1936. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1932 for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan. He was an architect

Architect

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by trade.