John Andrew Martin

John Andrew Martin ( born April 10, 1868 in Cincinnati, Ohio, † December 23, 1939 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the second and from 1933 to 1939 the third electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Martin moved in 1872 with his parents to Fulton, Missouri. He visited there as well as at times in Mexico public schools. In 1884 he moved with his family to Kansas, where she managed a farm. In 1887 he came to Colorado, where he worked until 1894 as railroad and locomotive firemen.

Politically, Martin was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1895 and 1896 he was in the municipal council of La Junta and published the newspaper " La Junta Times ". After studying law and its made ​​in 1896 admitted to the bar he began in Pueblo to work in his new profession. Between 1901 and 1902 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Colorado; 1905-1906, Martin was a legal representative of the city Pueblo. 1908 Martin was selected in the second district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Warren A. Haggott on March 4, 1909. After a re-election in 1910 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 two legislative sessions. In 1912 he abandoned a bid again.

After his time in Congress, Martin worked as a lawyer again. During the First World War, he was a major in the U.S. Army. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In the congressional elections of 1932 he ran successfully in the third electoral district of Oklahoma for the U.S. House of Representatives. This election victory was in the then federal trend in favor of the Democratic Party, who as U.S. president found its climax with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. On March 4, 1933, Martin appeared in Congress in the footsteps of Republican Guy U. Hardy. After Martin was operated at the following three congressional elections each in his mandate, he could remain until his death on 23 December 1939 at the Congress.

Fulton (Missouri) La Junta, Colorado Colorado Territory Hiram Pitt Bennet Allen Alexander Bradford George M. Chilcott Thomas M. Patterson James B. Belford George G. Symes Hosea Townsend John F. Shafroth Robert W. Bonynge Atterson W. Rucker George John Kindel Benjamin C. Hilliard William N. Vaile S. Harrison White William R. Eaton Lawrence Lewis (politician) Dean M. Gillespie John A. Carroll Byron G. Rogers John Calhoun Bell Herschel M. Hogg Harry H. Seldomridge Charles B. Timberlake Fred N. Cummings William S. Hill Byron L. Johnson Peter H. Dominick Tim Wirth Mark Udall Jared Polis Franklin E. Brooks George W. Cook Edward T. Taylor Edward Keating William E. Burney John Chenoweth John H. Marsalis Frank E. Evans Raymond P. Kogovsek Michael L. Strang Ben Nighthorse Campbell Scott McInnis John Salazar Scott Tipton Robert F. Rockwell Wayne N. Aspinall James Paul Johnson Hank Brown Bob Schaffer Marilyn Musgrave Betsy Markey Cory Gardner William L. Armstrong Doug Lamborn Daniel Schaefer Mike Coffman Ed Perlmutter
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