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Martin Veal ( born February 8, 1804 in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, † February 12, 1873 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Veal was born in the beginning of the 19th century in Flushing. He attended public schools and then studied chemistry. At the age of 18, he went on board a ship with an American captain and traveled to Sumatra to trade there. Upon his arrival he contracted cholera and then returned to illness back to Europe. He then went to an American a partnership and spent the next four years in Le Havre ( France). In 1826 he immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City, where he pursued the manufacture and sale of color. He was active in 1832 as Health Warden and 1836 Schultruehänder ( school trustee ). Then he erected in 1844 a chemical plant in Greenpoint. Between 1852 and 1854 he was Town Supervisor of Bushwick. He ran in 1854 for the post of mayor of Brooklyn, but was defeated. The following year he was elected Alderman in Brooklyn, a position which he held until 1861. In the same year the Civil War broke out. During this time he was 1862-1864 Mayor of Brooklyn.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1862 he was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Moses F. Odell on March 4, 1863. He retired after the March 3, 1865 out of the Congress. About a month later, the Civil War came to an end. The following year he took part in Philadelphia at the National Union Convention. Between 1867 and 1871 he was again mayor of Brooklyn. His re-election as an Independent candidacy was unsuccessful. He then withdrew from the political scene. He died on February 12, 1873 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.