Eben Martin

Eben Wever Martin ( born April 12, 1855 in Maquoketa, Iowa, † May 22, 1932 in Hot Springs, South Dakota ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1915 he represented several times the second and the third electoral district of the state of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Eben Martin attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1879, the Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Between 1879 and 1880 he studied at the University of Michigan law. After his 1880 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Deadwood in the Dakota Territory.

Political career

Martin was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1884 and 1885 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives and from 1886 to 1900 he directed the School Board in Deadwood. In the congressional elections of 1900, Eben Martin was elected for the second constituency of South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1901 Robert J. Gamble. After two re- election he was able to complete by 1901 to March 3, 1907, this three coherent legislative sessions in Congress. Martin was a supporter of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the 1906 elections, he had dispensed with in favor of a renewed candidacy then unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. Its seat in the House of Representatives went on March 4, 1907 William H. Parker. When he then died during its term in office, Martin won the overdue elections and was thus on November 3, 1908 his old seat in Congress take.

After several re- elections Eben Martin stayed until March 3, 1915 Congressman, he said in his last legislative period from 1913 to the third constituency of South Dakota represented. This constituency was first created at that time and should consist 20 years until 1933. Martin was the first of only three members of Congress that constituency.

Further CV

In 1914, Martin did not run for Congress. He moved to Hot Springs in South Dakota, where he worked as a lawyer again. He is also passed in May 1932. He was married in 1883 to Jessie Miner, with whom he had five children.