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Senate Years of Service: 1947-1959 Party: Republican
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MARTIN, Edward, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born at Ten Mile, Greene County, Pa.,
September 18, 1879; attended the public schools; graduated from Waynesburg
College, Waynesburg, Pa., in 1901; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1905 and
commenced practice in Waynesburg; served in the Spanish-American War on the
Mexican Border and in the First and Second World Wars; burgess of East
Waynesburg 1902-1905; solicitor of Greene County 1908-1910, 1916-1920; auditor
general of Pennsylvania 1925-1929; State treasurer 1929-1933; adjutant general
of Pennsylvania 1939-1943; president of the National Guard Association of the
United States 1940; Governor of Pennsylvania 1943-1946; chairman of the
National Governors Conference 1945-1946; had varied business interests,
including fire insurance, oil and gas, and banking; author and editor;
president of the Council of State Governments in 1946; elected as a Republican
to the United States Senate in 1946; reelected in 1952, and served from January
3, 1947, to January 3, 1959; chairman, Committee on Public Works (Eighty-third
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; retired; died in
Washington, Pa., March 19, 1967; interment in Greene Mount Cemetery,
Waynesburg, Pa.
BibliographyMartin, Edward. Always Be On Time: An
Autobiography. Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, 1959.
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