Patrick M. Martin

Minor Patrick Martin ( born November 25, 1924 in Norfolk, Madison County, Nebraska, † July 18, 1968 in Long Beach, California ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1965 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Patrick Martin attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1947, the Riverside Junior College in California. This was followed up in 1949 to study at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously, he served during the Second World War from 1943 to 1945 in the U.S. Coast Guard. After studying law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and his 1953 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Riverside in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1962, Martin was in the then newly established 38th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1963. Since he Democrat John V. Tunney was defeated in 1964, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1965. This was marked by the events of the civil rights movement and the beginning of the Vietnam War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Patrick Martin practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 18, 1968 in Long Beach and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.