Whitmell P. Martin

Whitmell Pugh Martin (August 12, 1867 - April 6, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.

Born near Napoleonville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, Martin attended the public schools and was privately tutored.He graduated from Louisiana State University in 1888. He was a professor of chemistry at the Kentucky Military Institute in 1889 and 1890, and worked as a chemist for the Sugar Land Refinery, Texas, in 1890 and 1891.

Martin studied law at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1891 and 1892. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Napoleonville, Louisiana. He moved to Thibodaux, Louisiana, the same year and continued the practice of law. From 1894-1900, he was superintendent of schools for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. He served as district attorney of the twentieth district 1900-1906 and judge of the same district 1906-1914.

Martin was 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.He was interred in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, Louisiana.

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