William D. Martin

William Dickinson Martin (born October 20, 1789 in Martintown , Edgefield County , South Carolina , †  November 17, 1833 in Charleston , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Martin enjoyed a good primary education. After a subsequent law degree at Litchfield Law School and his admission as a lawyer in 1811, he began to work in Edgefield in his new profession. In 1813 he moved to Coosawhatchie , Beaufort County . At the same time he began to get involved in politics. Between 1816 and 1817 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina , from 1816 to 1828 he was a protocolist in the State Senate . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which the Democratic Party emerged .

In 1826, Martin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of South Carolina . There he took over from Andrew R. Govan on March 4, 1827 . After a re-election in 1828, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1831 . Discussions there centered on the politics of President Jackson, who had been in office since March 4, 1829. It was about the enforcement of the Indian Removal Act . In addition, the conflict between the federal government and the state of South Carolina over the validity of an import tariff law intensified. This dispute culminated in the nullification crisis , which then escalated in the legislative period after Martin's departure from Congress.

William Martin worked as a judge between 1831 and 1833. In 1833 he moved to Columbia . He died in Charleston that same year.

Web links

• William D. Martin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William D. Martin in the database of Find a Grave (English)