Martin Alonzo Haynes

Martin Alonzo Haynes ( born July 30, 1842 in Springfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, † November 28, 1919 in Lakeport, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1846, Martin Haynes moved with his parents to Manchester in Hillsborough County. There he attended the public schools. He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the army of the Union. In 1868 he moved to Lakeport, where he founded the newspaper " Lake Village Times ," which he directed more than 20 years.

Haynes was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1872 and 1873 he sat in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. From 1876-1883 he was employed in the administration of justice in Belknap County. In the years 1881 and 1882 he was president of the general Veterans Association of New Hampshire. He was a member of the Association of Civil War veterans of the Union Army ( Grand Army of the Republic). For this association, he has also headed in the years 1881-1882 the District of New Hampshire.

1882 Haynes was in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joshua G. Hall on March 4, 1883. After a re-election in 1884 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1886, Haynes was defeated by Democrat Luther F. McKinney. Between 1890 and 1893, and from 1898 to 1912 Haynes worked for the tax authority. In the meantime, he helped build a control system in the Philippines. Martin Haynes died in November 1919 in Lakeport, and was also buried there.