Name Thomas Martin Resigned November 12, 1919 | ||
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Born July 29, 1847Scottsville, Virginia ( 1847-07-29 ) Died November 12, 1919, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States | ||
Previous office Senator (VA) 1895–1919 | ||
Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847 – November 12, 1919) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Charlottesville, Virginia. Immediately after his service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, he attended the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate for nearly twenty-five years.
His home, Faulkner House, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Mrs. Thomas S. Martin, the young wife of Senator Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia, was a much admired belle of her native home, Smithville, Virginia, as well as at the various watering places where she spent the summers of her happy girlhood. Her father, the Hon. C. Fenlon Day, was well known throughout Virginia. Her marriage with Senator Martin occurred at Smithfield, in 1894. Possessing decided literary talent, she wrote repeatedly for publication, and both her poems and her prose articles were admired for their beauty of thought and expression.
Martin died while in office, at his home in Charlottesville, and is buried in the University of Virginia Cemetery at that location.