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DIES, Martin, Jr., (son of Martin Dies),
a Representative from Texas; born in Colorado, Mitchell County,
Tex., November 5, 1900; moved with his parents to Beaumont, Tex., in 1902;
attended the public schools, Wesley College, Greenville, Tex., and Cluster
Springs Academy, Cluster Springs, Va.; was graduated from the law department of
National University, Washington, D.C. (now George Washington University),
LL.B., 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in
Marshall, Tex.; moved to Orange, Tex., in 1922 and continued the practice of
law; also interested in ranching and agricultural pursuits at Jasper, Tex.;
member of the faculty of East Texas Law School, Beaumont, Tex., in 1930;
district judge; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1945); chairman, Special
Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities (Seventy-fifth through
Seventy-eighth Congresses); did not seek renomination in 1944 to the
Seventy-ninth Congress; elected to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); did not seek renomination in 1958
to the Eighty-sixth Congress; while a Member of Congress in 1941 and 1957 was
defeated for the nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate;
resumed the practice of law; died November 14, 1972, in Lufkin, Tex.;
entombment in Garden of Memories Mausoleum.
BibliographyMcDaniel, Dennis Kay. Martin Dies of Un-American Activities:
His Life and Times. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Houston, 1988; Dies,
Martin.
Martin Dies Story. New York: Bookmailer, 1963.
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