George B. Martin

George B. Martin

George Brown Martin (born August 18, 1876 in Prestonsburg , Floyd County , Kentucky , †  November 12, 1945 in Catlettsburg , Kentucky) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

When George Martin was a toddler, his parents moved him to Catlettsburg, Boyd County . He attended public schools and Center University , where he graduated in 1895. After completing his law degree , he was admitted to the bar in 1900 and began to practice in Catlettsburg. He became a lawyer and later a railroad director and vice president of the Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company . He also acted as director of a bank in Catlettsburg.

In 1904, Martin became a Boyd County Judge . In 1917 he was a member of the Kentucky Council of National Defense . He was also with the office of majors in the legal corps of the US Army ( Judge Advocate General's Corps in charge), but did not join it to because it for the Democratic Party in the US Senate had been called. There he took over the vacant seat of the late Ollie M. James , which he held from September 7, 1918 to March 3, 1919. He was not considered as a candidate for a full term. During his tenure in the Senate, he was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture .

After the end of his short political career, George B. Martin worked again as a lawyer in Catlettsburg, where he died in 1945.

Web links

• George B. Martin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George B. Martin in the database of Find a Grave (English)