Thomas E. Martin
Thomas Ellsworth Martin ( born January 18, 1893 in Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa, † June 27, 1971 in Seattle, Washington ) was an American politician. He represented the state of Iowa in both chambers of Congress.
Life
Career
Thomas Martin was born as the son of David J. Martin and his wife, Sara A. Brandon into a wealthy family in, since his parents were owners of a grandfather founded by Martins Bank.
Martin grew up in Monroe County, where he, as well as in the neighboring Lucas County attended the compulsory schools. He received his degree he earned at the Albia High School. After that, Martin wrote to the University of Iowa a, where he studied business administration, and graduated in 1916. From 1917 to 1919 he served as a soldier of the 35th Infantry Division in World War II. Shortly after his return to the United States he married on June 5, 1920 Dorris Jeannette Brownlee. He and his wife had two children, son Richard and daughter Dorris.
1920 Martin moved to Iowa City, where he lived for the next 40 years. In 1921, he received a position as a professor of military history and tactics at his alma mater, the University of Iowa. In 1923, he, however, in the private sector and worked from that time as a bookkeeper for several companies, including Akron ( Ohio) and Dallas ( Texas). As a law student, he returned to the University of Iowa. After moving to Columbia University in 1927, he earned his Master of Law in 1928. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Iowa City. Martin was a member of some well-known organizations and connections and was so among other things, a member of the American Legion and a Masonic lodge.
Political career
In 1932, Martin, a member of the Republican Party was the first time an election, when he ran for the office of the Minister of Economic Affairs (State Commerce Commissioner) of Iowa. However, both 1932 and 1934, he suffered an election defeat. In 1933, after the election of Harry D. Breene mayor of Iowa City, Martin was appointed to the city government for judicial City Council ( City Attorney ). As Breene 1935 would not run again, Martin announced his plan, mayor of Iowa City, will want to. With the ambition to want to install a street lighting in the hard-hit by the Great Depression city, and thus want to modernize the town, he went into the campaign and succeeded. Martin was mayor from 1935 to 1937.
1936 Martin ran for a parliamentary seat in the House of Representatives of the United States and had another success when he could disassociate his Democratic competitor clearly by a margin of 13,000 votes. On January 3, 1939, Martin was in the Capitol in Washington, DC sworn. Martin was 16 years a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During this time he was sitting in the Committee on Ways and Means, the Social and Economic Committee of the Parliament, as well as the Armed Services Committee.
In March 1953, Martin announced his intention to run for a seat in the Senate of the United States. At first it seemed as if he had defeated the incumbent, Democrat Guy Gillette, no chance. Only after William S. Beardsley, the incumbent Republican governor of Iowa, gave up an own candidacy, was hoping for Martin. After an intense campaign in which he lay back 165,000 miles, he could displace Gillette on election day with success from his office. Galt Martin during his time as a congressman yet. Than an opponent of intervention abroad, so he was now a supporter of military presence in other countries Also, he was considered a supporter of the policy of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In February 1959, Martin had planned candidacy on the basis of a small scandal in which he was involved, give up. So the Democrats were able to find out that both his wife as well as his son stood on his payroll and his expenses were significantly higher than those of Bourke B. Hickenlooper, the second U.S. Senator from Iowa. The opposition accused him of wasting taxpayers ' money. As Martin said in a statement pointed out that these issues came on the public nothing, and the information was partly wrong, he was heavily criticized by the opinion-forming daily newspaper, The Des Moines Register. Martin pulled thereupon withdrew his candidacy.
Late life and death
After his retirement from the Senate in 1961, Martin moved from politics to private life. He moved to Seattle ( Washington), near his daughter and her family. Here he spent the last decade of his life. Thomas E. Martin died in June 1971 at the age of 78 years.