Edward L. Martin

Edward Livingston Martin ( born March 29, 1837 in Seaford, Delaware; † January 22, 1897 ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Martin was initially formed at private schools. He attended Newark Academy and then the Bolmar 's Academy in West Chester ( Pennsylvania). Subsequently, he studied until 1859 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 1863 and 1865 he was Clerk ( Clerk ) in the Senate from Delaware.

Martin was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1864 and 1884 he visited with one exception in 1868, all Democratic National Conventions. After studying law at the University of Virginia and its made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began in Dover to work in his new profession. In 1867 he returned to Seaford, where he was engaged in agriculture and horticulture. After that, he was director of the Committee on Agriculture of the State of Delaware and President of the Horticultural Society his home ( Peninsula Horticultural Society ). He also lectured at the State Experimental Farm (State Grange ) of Delaware.

In the years 1873-1875 he was member of a commission that dealt with the disputed border between the states of Delaware and New Jersey. 1878 Martin was then in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced James Williams on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880, he could remain until March 3, 1883 in Congress. In 1882 he abandoned a bid again.

After his time in Congress, he devoted himself to his private, mainly agricultural, matters. Twice he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. Together with Arthur Stilwell founded Martin in 1887, the railway company Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway in Kansas City, which went into operation in 1890. Edward Martin died on January 22, 1897 in his birthplace of Seaford and was also buried there.