Whitmell P. Martin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Whitmell P. Martin

American politician

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1867

Place of Birth: Napoleonville, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1929

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Whitmell P. Martin

  • Whitmell Pugh Martin (August 12, 1867 – April 6, 1929) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Louisiana.
  • Although he later served most of his congressional career as a Democrat, Martin was first elected as a "Bull Moose" Progressive in 1914.
  • He is the only individual ever to represent Louisiana in Congress as a member of that party. Born near Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, to Robert Campbell Martin and Margerite Chism (Littlejohn) Martin, Whitmell attended the public schools and was privately tutored.
  • He graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1888.
  • He was a professor of chemistry at Kentucky Military Institute in 1889 and 1890.
  • He worked as a chemist for Imperial Sugar at Sugar Land, Texas, in 1890 and 1891. Martin studied law at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1891 and 1892.
  • He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Napoleonville, Louisiana.
  • He moved to Thibodaux, Louisiana, the same year and continued the practice of law.
  • From 1894 to 1900, he was superintendent of schools for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.
  • On April 14, 1896 he married Amy Williamson.
  • He served as district attorney for the 20th judicial district of Louisiana from 1900 to 1906 and judge of the same district from 1906 to 1914. Elected in 1914 as a "Bull Moose" Progressive to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses, Martin was the last non-Democrat to represent Louisiana in Congress prior to the election of Republican David C.
  • Treen, also from Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, in 1972.
  • Martin was the only individual to represent Louisiana in Congress during the 20th century without being a member of either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.
  • In 1916 he narrowly won re-election against Sheriff Wade O.
  • Martin, Sr.
  • by 99 votes, less than a percent separating the two lead candidates. In 1918, he sought re-election as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and continued as a Democrat through the ensuing five congressional elections, all of them uncontested.
  • Martin thus served in Congress from March 4, 1915 until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 6, 1929.
  • He was a delegate, representing his congressional district, to the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
  • Martin was an Episcopalian as well as a Freemason.Martin was interred in St.
  • John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, Louisiana.

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