Martin A. Brennan

Martin Adlai Brennan ( born September 21, 1879 in Bloomington, Illinois, † July 4, 1941 ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Brennan attended the common schools and then worked as a reporter for the newspaper Bloomington Bulletin. After a subsequent law studies at Wesleyan College of Law in Bloomington and his 1902 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his hometown in this profession. Between 1913 and 1917 he was Chief Justice of the Illinois Court of Claims. In 1920, he served Director of Census Bureau in McLean County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1921 and 1923 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois; In 1924 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Brennan was in the 26th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Yates on March 4, 1933. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During this time, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3.

1936 renounced Martin Brennan on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer back in Bloomington, where he died on July 4, 1941.