Edward L. Martin

:"For the Pennsylvania politician, see Edward Martin"Edward Livingston Martin (March 29, 1837 - January 22, 1897) was a United States Representative from Delaware. Born in Seaford, he attended private schools, Newark Academy, Bolmar's Academy (West Chester, Pennsylvania) and Delaware College (Newark). He was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1859, and served as clerk of the Delaware Senate from 1863 to 1865. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1864, 1872, 1876, 1880, and 1884. He studied law at the University of Virginia in 1866, was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Dover until 1867. He returned to Seaford and engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits, and served as director of the Delaware Board of Agriculture, president of the Peninsula Horticultural Society, and lecturer of the Delaware State Grange. He was a commissioner to settle disputed boundary line between the States of Delaware and New Jersey, 1873 to 1875, and was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1879 to March 4, 1883. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress, and resumed horticultural and agricultural pursuits. He was twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. Martin spent they years prior to his death in 1897 founding the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway with Arthur Stilwell in Kansas City, Missouri. Martin and Stilwell founded the railway in 1887 and began its operations in 1890. Martin died in Seaford; interment was in St. Luke's Episcopal Churchyard.

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