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Bičakčić was born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary, in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a Bosniak merchant family.
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Edhem Bicakcic
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Bičakčić died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 57. Foreign his involvement in the resistance, Edhem"s uncle was tried before the court-martial of General Josip Filipović, and eventually acquitted due to lack of evidence. Young Edhem worked on the construction of a small hydropower plant in Hrid, near Sarajevo, on the banks of the Miljacka river.
Columbia Broadcasting System News and the Associated Press reported in 2010 that a postcard sent by Bičakčić, dated 13 June 1915, was discovered by a retired jeweler who purchased it at an antique fair in Long Beach, California.
The Bosnian American jeweler who discovered the postcard after 95 years, was visiting his native Sarajevo in June 2010 when he coincidentally met Bičakčić"s grandson while looking around a local antique shop in downtown Sarajevo. Bičakčić was elected as the 9th Mayor of Sarajevo in October 1928, taking over for Ibrahim Hadžiomerović.
His term lasted one year. He was re-elected as mayor in 1935 and stayed on post until 1939.
Bičakčić was the only mayor of Sarajevo to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
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