Louis St. Martin

Louis St. Martin (born May 17, 1820 in St. Charles Parish , Louisiana , †  February 9, 1893 in New Orleans , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1851 and 1853 and again between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis St. Martin attended St. Mary's College in Missouri and Jefferson College in Louisiana. Then he worked in a notary's office. At the same time he studied law; later he did not work as a lawyer. After graduating, he became a clerk in a postal office in New Orleans. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In 1840, St. Martin was first elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives. Between 1846 and 1850 he was again a member of the state parliament. From 1846 to 1849 he worked for the federal land registry in the southern part of the state of Louisiana. In the congressional elections of 1850, St. Martin in the first constituency of Louisiana was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Emile La Sére on March 4, 1851 . Since he refused to run again in 1852, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1853 . This was overshadowed by the discussions about the question of slavery in the run-up to the civil war. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Franklin Pierce was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, St. Martin began trading. In the city of New Orleans he was given the job of maintaining the electoral roll. After the state of Louisiana, which had joined the Confederate States in 1861 , was largely occupied by Union troops during the Civil War in 1864, elections for the US Congress were held there. St. Martin was re-elected; but he could not take up his mandate in Washington because the state of Louisiana had not yet been re-accepted into the Union. In 1868 St. Martin was re-elected to the House of Representatives. Again, he was denied his seat because Congress questioned the validity of his election.

In the years 1868, 1876 and 1880 Louis St. Martin was again a delegate at the respective federal party conventions of the Democrats. In the congressional elections of 1884 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over from Carleton Hunt on March 4, 1885 . Until March 3, 1887 he was able to spend another legislative period in Congress. St. Martin died in New Orleans on February 9, 1893.

Web links

• Louis St. Martin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis St. Martin in the database of Find a Grave (English)