Julius C. Zeller

Julius Christian Zeller (1871–1938) was an American clergyman of the Methodist church, an educator, and a politician who served in the Mississippi Senate representing Yazoo County.

After completing his bachelor's degree, Zeller was active in ministerial work for the Methodist Episcopal Church.

From 1905 until Zeller was elected president of the University of Puget Sound,[5] he acted as the chair of Philosophy and Education at Illinois Wesleyan University[6] From 1909 to 1913, Zeller served as the president of the University of Puget Sound[7] Zeller later moved to Mississippi, where he served as the superintendent of Bolivar County agricultural schools from 1920 to 1921, as the director of the Summer Normal School in Benton, Mississippi during 1922, and was a member of the State Commissioner on Institutions for Higher Learning during 1926.

In 1919, Zeller recommended the establishment of a single consolidated state university in Jackson, Mississippi in order to improve the state university system, but the legislature would not pursue his recommendation until eight years later, when it was again proposed by Senator Linton Glover North.

[6] Julius Christian Zeller married Alice Bryant in January 1895, and the couple had 9 children together, 7 of which survived into adulthood[9]