Martin Dies, Sr.

This Martin ( born March 13, 1870 Jackson Parish, Louisiana, † July 13, 1922 in Kerrville, Texas ) was an American politician. He represented the state of Texas as a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Dies was born in 1870 as the son of David Warren and Sarah Jane ( Pyburn ) in Louisiana. The family then moved in 1876 to the Freestone County, Texas, where this attended the public school. Some sources indicate that this the Law School of the University of Texas visited, but other sources claim that he worked in a variety of occupations in East Texas, such as Blacksmith, railway construction, teacher and in a sawmill. Nevertheless, this was in 1892 admitted to the bar in Texas. He practiced in Woodville, Beaumont, Colorado City and Kountze. We should also mention that he edited a newspaper in Freestone County and later County Marshal was.

This married on May 15, 1892 Olive Cline Blackshear. They had two daughters and a son, Martin Jr., who became a politician also. The couple divorced later. In 1894 he was elected District Judge of Tyler County. This was a godsend for this, because he used his judicial power, in order to secure land claims in the lumber region in East Texas. He and his family then moved to Beaumont in 1897 in the south has to offer.

Policy

During the Spanish- American War, he joined the Company D of the third regiment Beaumont Light Guards, a volunteer army of Texas. After his return in 1898 he was elected district attorney of the first district court. However, this did not have much luck, because he suffered a financial setback when he could not pay back a loan his friend John Herry Kirby. The result of all this was that he and his family moved in 1899 to Colorado City in West Texas.

In 1908, this turned out to be a candidate for election to the Congress and won. He defeated the incumbent Samuel B. Cooper. This represented after the second congressional district of Texas from the 61st to the 65th Congress ( 1909-1919 ). During his tenure, he leaned large military expenditures, as well as high tariffs, from, but he advocated an income tax. He joined in 1918 not again for re-election to Congress on. He was a Democrat, Methodist and outspoken nativist. In addition, he was against women's suffrage and 1916 against Woodrow Wilson's Preparedness Program.

This Martin died on July 13, 1922 in Kerrville and was buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.