Benjamin F. Martin

Benjamin Franklin Martin ( * October 2, 1828 in Farmington, Marion County, Virginia; † January 20, 1895 in Grafton, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Martin was born in 1828 near Farmington, which was still in Virginia at that time. Since 1863, the city is part of the then newly founded state of West Virginia. Martin went to Allegheny College in Meadville in 1854 (Pennsylvania). He then worked as a teacher in Fairmont. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in March 1856 to work in his new profession. In the year 1856 he moved his residence to Pruntytown.

Martin was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1872 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of West Virginia. In the years 1872 and 1888 he also took part in the respective Democratic National Conventions. In 1876 he was in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles J. Faulkner on March 4, 1877. After a re-election in 1878 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions.

For the elections of 1880 Benjamin Martin was not nominated by his party. In the following years he worked as a lawyer in Grafton, where he died on 20 January 1895.