Martin Joseph Wade

Martin Joseph Wade

Martin Joseph Wade (born October 20, 1861 in Burlington , Vermont , †  April 16, 1931 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Martin Wade came to Iowa with his parents at a young age. There he attended public schools and St. Josephs College in Dubuque . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa and his admission as a lawyer in 1886, he practiced in Iowa City in his new profession until 1893 . Between 1893 and 1903, Wade was a judge in the Eighth District of Iowa. From 1891 to 1903 he also lectured in law at the University of Iowa. There he was also an expert in forensic medicine. In 1897 and 1898, Wade served as president of the Iowa Bar Association.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1902 congressional election, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Iowa Second Constituency . On March 4, 1903, he succeeded John NW Rumple from the Republican Party, who died on January 31, 1903 . Since he was defeated by Republican Albert F. Dawson in the 1904 elections, Wade could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1905 .

After his time in the House of Representatives, Martin Wade worked as a lawyer again. In 1904 and 1912 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1915 he was appointed by US President Woodrow Wilson to succeed Smith McPherson as a judge in the federal district court for the southern district of Iowa. He held this office until his death in April 1931 in Los Angeles. In 1918, he caused a sensation with a verdict when he sentenced the defendant Daniel Wallace to 20 years in prison during the First World War for speaking out against conscription and expressing critical views of the war allies.

Web links

• Martin Joseph Wade in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Martin Joseph Wade in the database of Find a Grave (English)