Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 


Biography of Martin Dies
  (Mar. 13, 1870-Jul. 13, 1922, buried Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, TX.)


DIES, MARTIN -  A United States Representative from Texas; born in Jackson 
Parish, Louisana, on March 13, 1870; moved with his parents to Freestone County,
Texas, in 1876; attended the common schools and was graduated from the law 
department of the University of Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1893
and commenced practice in Woodville, Texas; edited a newspaper in Freestone County;
was county marshal; county judge of Tyler County in 1894; district attorney of 
the first judicial district of Texas 1898-1900; moved to Colorado, Texas, and 
engaged in the practice of law; moved to Beaumont, Texas, in 1902 and was 
employed as counsel for the Gulf Refining Co.; elected as a Democrat to the 
61st and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1919);
chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (63rd and 64th Congresses); was not a 
candidate for reelection in 1918; retired to his ranch on Turkey Creek, Tyler 
County, Texas; later moved to Kerrville, Texas, in 1921 and died there July 13, 
1922; was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas.