John Andrew Martin

John Andrew Martin

John Andrew Martin (born April 10, 1868 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † December 23, 1939 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the second and from 1933 to 1939 the third constituency of the state of Colorado in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Martin moved to Fulton , Missouri with his parents in 1872 . He attended public schools there and temporarily in Mexico . In 1884 he and his family moved to Kansas where they ran a farm. In 1887 he came to Colorado, where he worked in railroad construction and as a locomotive heater until 1894.

Politically, Martin became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1895 and 1896 he was a member of the La Junta Town Council and published the La Junta Times newspaper. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1896, he began working in his new profession in Pueblo . Between 1901 and 1902 he was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives ; between 1905 and 1906 Martin was the legal representative of the city of Pueblo. In 1908, Martin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of Oklahoma, where he succeeded Warren A. Haggott on March 4, 1909 . After a re-election in 1910, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1913 . In 1912 he declined to run again.

After serving in Congress, Martin returned to practice as a lawyer. During the First World War he was a major in the US Army . After that he practiced as a lawyer again. In the 1932 congressional elections, he ran successfully in the third constituency of Oklahoma for the US House of Representatives. This election victory was in the federal trend of the time in favor of the Democratic Party, which culminated in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as US President . On March 4, 1933, Martin succeeded Republican Guy U. Hardy in Congress . After Martin was operated in his mandate in the three following congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on December 23, 1939.

Web links

• John Andrew Martin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Andrew Martin in the database of Find a Grave (English)