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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Whitmell P. Martin |
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Thibodaux, Louisiana , United States |
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August 12, 1867
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| Died | April 06, 1929
(61 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | 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.
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