| 词条 | James Stewart Martin (congressman) |
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|name = James Stewart Martin |image = |caption = |state = Illinois |district = {{ushr|Illinois|16|16th}} |term_start = March 4, 1873 |term_end = March 3, 1875 |predecessor = District created |successor = William A. J. Sparks |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1826|8|19}} |birth_place = Gate City, Virginia |death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|11|20|1826|8|19}} |death_place = Salem, Illinois |party = Republican }} James Stewart Martin (August 19, 1826 – November 20, 1907) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. BiographyMartin was born in Estillville (now Gate City), Scott County, Virginia, the son of John S. Martin and Melinda Morison.[1] His father's second wife was Nancy Brownlow, making him a step-nephew of radical Tennessee governor William "Parson" Brownlow.[2] He attended the common schools and Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He moved to Salem, Illinois, in 1846. He served during the Mexican–American War in Company C of the 1st Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. Afterwars he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Salem, Illinois; becoming a clerk of the Marion County Court. During the Civil War Martin served in the Union Army and was commissioned colonel of the 111th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 18, 1862. He was brevetted brigadier general on February 26, 1865 and then honorably mustered out on June 7. After the war Marion served as judge of Marion County Court. He was appointed as United States pension agent by President Grant on April 13, 1869. Martin was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875), defeating Silas L. Bryan, the father of William Jennings Bryan, by a vote of 12,266 to 12,016. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election and then became commissioner of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Menard in 1879. Martin died in Salem, Illinois on November 20, 1907. He was interred in East Lawn Cemetery. References1. ^Green Raum, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofillinoi00raumilli/historyofillinoi00raumilli_djvu.txt History of Illinois Republicanism], (Chicago, Ill.: Rollins Publishing Company, 1900), p. 311. Retrieved 13 April 2014. {{CongBio|M000184}}{{Bioguide}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox2. ^Zella Armstrong, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iU4bAAAAYAAJ Notable Southern Families], Volume 1, (Chattanooga, Tenn.: The Lookout Publishing Co., 1918), p. 44. OCLC 1079125. Retrieved: 29 October 2012. |state=Illinois |district=16 |before=District created |years=1873-1875 |after=William A. J. Sparks}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, James Stewart}} 13 : 1826 births|1907 deaths|19th-century American lawyers|19th-century American politicians|American military personnel of the Mexican–American War|Emory and Henry College alumni|Illinois lawyers|Illinois Republicans|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois|People from Scott County, Virginia|People of Illinois in the American Civil War|Union Army colonels|Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives |
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