Martin I. Townsend

Martin Ingham Townsend ( born February 6, 1810 in Hancock, Massachusetts, † March 8, 1903 in Troy, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Ingham Townsend was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Hancock. The family then moved in 1816 to Williamstown. There he attended community schools and graduated in 1833 from Williams College. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1836 and then began to practice in Troy. Between 1842 and 1845 he was district attorney in Rensselaer County. As a delegate, he took in 1867 and 1868, the Constituent Assembly of New York. Between 1873 and 1903 he was regent at New York University. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 for the 44th Congress Townsend was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert S. Hale on March 4, 1875. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1878, he retired after the March 3, 1879 out of the Congress.

Between 1879 and 1887 he was United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York. He took in 1890 at the Constitutional Convention of New York. The following year, he gave his occupation as a lawyer and went into retirement. On March 8, 1903, he died in Troy and was then buried in the Oakwood Cemetery.