Whitmell P. Martin

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Whitmell P. Martin

Whitmell Pugh Martin (born August 12, 1867 in Napoleonville , Louisiana , †  April 6, 1929 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1929 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Whitmell Martin received both public and private schooling. He then studied until 1888 at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , the specialist chemicals . He taught this subject in 1889 and 1890 at the Kentucky Military Institute . He then worked as a chemist for the Sugar Land Refinery in Texas until 1891 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1892, he began to work in Napoleonville in his new profession. In the same year he moved his residence and his law firm to Thibodaux . Between 1894 and 1900 Martin was a school councilor in Lafourche Parish . He then served from 1900 to 1906 as a district attorney in the 20th judicial district of his state, in which he then worked as a judge until 1914.

Politically, he joined the the former US president at that time, Theodore Roosevelt launched Progressive Party of. In the 1914 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as their candidate in the third constituency of Louisiana. There he took over from Robert F. Broussard on March 4, 1915 . After several re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on April 6, 1929 . Since 1918 he was a member of the Democratic Party , for which he ran from then on. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco , where James M. Cox was nominated as a presidential candidate. During his time in Congress, the 18th and 19th amendments were passed there.

Web links

  • Whitmell P. Martin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)