David Martin (Nebraska politician)

David Thomas Martin ( born July 9, 1907 in Kearney, Nebraska, † May 15, 1997 ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1974 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Martin attended the public schools of his home and then Dartmouth College. After his training, he was active in the lumber business and later in politics. Martin was a member of the Republican Party, the Republican National Convention he attended in the years 1944 and 1948 as a delegate.

Between 1949 and 1954 he was chairman of his party in Nebraska and from 1952 to 1954 it belonged to the Republican National Committee to. In 1954, he ran unsuccessfully in the primaries of his party for a seat in the U.S. Senate. 1960 Martin was selected in the third district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where on January 3, 1961 Ralph F. Beermann replaced. After he won the next six congressional elections, he could implement his mandate in Congress until his resignation on 31 December 1974. He was a member of the House Rules Committee and in the education and labor committee. In the elections of 1974, he did not stand. His resignation was only three days before the end of the legislature.

After his time in Congress was system David Martin on the board of Nebraska State College. In 1980, he led the then- unsuccessful presidential primary campaign of George Bush. Martin died in May 1997 at the age of 89 years.