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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaWhitmell Pugh MARTIN
(1867-1929)
MARTIN, Whitmell Pugh, a
Representative from Louisiana; born near Napoleonville, Assumption
Parish, La., August 12, 1867; attended the public schools and was
privately tutored; was graduated from the Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, La., in 1888; professor of chemistry at
the Kentucky Military Institute in 1889 and 1890; chemist for the
Sugar Land Refinery, Texas, in 1890 and 1891; studied law at the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., in 1891 and 1892; was
admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in
Napoleonville, La.; moved to Thibodaux, La., the same year and
continued the practice of law; superintendent of schools for the
parish of Lafourche, La., 1894-1900; district attorney of the
twentieth district 1900-1906 and judge of the same district
1906-1914; elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth and
Sixty-fifth Congresses, and as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to
the five succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1915,
until his death in Washington, D.C., April 6, 1929; interment in
St. John’s Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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