Eben Wever Martin Biography


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MARTIN, Eben Wever, a Representative from South Dakota; born in 
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, April 12, 1855; attended the public 
schools, and was graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 
in 1879; attended the law department of the University of Michigan at 
Ann Arbor in 1879 and 1880 and was president of his class; was admitted 
to the bar in 1880 and commenced the practice of law in Deadwood, Dak. 
(now South Dakota); member of the Territorial House of Representatives 
of Dakota in 1884 and 1885; served as president of the board of education 
of the city of Deadwood 1886-1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-
seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901-
March 3, 1907); did not seek the renomination in 1906, having become a 
candidate for the United States Senate; unsuccessful candidate for the 
United States Senate in 1906; elected to the Sixtieth Congress to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Parker; reelected to the 
Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses and served from 
November 3, 1908, until March 3,1915; was not a candidate for renomination 
in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Hot 
Springs, S. Dak., until his death in that city on May 22, 1932; interment 
in Evergreen Cemetery.