Charles H. Martin (congressman)

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For the Oregon governor and congressman of the same name, see Charles Henry Martin.

Charles Henry Martin (great-grandson of Nathaniel Macon), was a United States Representative from North Carolina; born near Youngsville, Franklin County, N.C., August 28, 1848; attended the common schools and the preparatory department of Wake Forest College; was graduated from Wake Forest College in 1872 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1875; studied in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; principal of the high schools at Badin and Lumberton, N.C.; professor of Latin in the female college at Murfreesboro, N.C., and later taught in Wake Forest College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Louisburg, Franklin County, N.C.; moved to Raleigh, N.C., and continued the practice of law; ordained as a Baptist minister in 1887; successfully contested as a Populist the election of James A. Lockhart to the Fifty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from June 5, 1896, to March 3, 1899; did not seek renomination in 1898; resumed his ministerial duties at Polkton, North Carolina, where he diedd on April 19, 1931.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.