George B. Martin

George Brown Martin ( born August 18, 1876 in Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky, † November 12, 1945 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.

Even as George Martin was a toddler, his parents moved with him to Catlettsburg in Boyd County. He attended the public schools and the University Centre, where he graduated in 1895. After graduating law school, he was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Catlettsburg. He became a lawyer and later a director of a railway company, and vice president of Ohio Valley Electric Railway Company. He also served as a director of a bank in Catlettsburg.

In 1904, Martin Richter of Boyd County was. In 1917 he was a member of the National Defence Council (Council of National Defense) of Kentucky. In addition, he was entrusted with the office of Major in the legal corps of the U.S. Army ( Judge Advocate General's Corps ), but came to this not because he had been called for the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate. There he took the vacant seat of the late Ollie M. James, a position he held from September 7, 1918 to March 3, 1919. As a candidate for a full term of office, he was not considered. During his time in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on investments in the Department of Agriculture ( Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture).

After the end of his short political career, George B. Martin again worked as a lawyer in Catlettsburg, where he died in 1945.