district succeeded predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party term_end preceded birth_date term_start image article_title state name
1st fred schwengel guy gillette jack miller 27 june 1971 melrose , iowa seattle , washington united states senator republican january 3 , 1961 january 3 , 1955 edward c. eicher 18 january 1893 january 3 , 1955 january 3 , 1939 thomas_ellsworth_martin . jpg thomas e. martin
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thomas e. martin

thomas ellsworth martin -lrb- january 18 , 1893june 27 , 1971 -rrb- was a united states representative and senator from iowa .
martin , a republican , served in congress for 22 consecutive years , from january 1939 to january 1961 .
born in melrose , iowa , he attended the public schools and graduated from the state university of iowa -lrb- in 1916 -rrb- and from its college of law -lrb- in 1927 -rrb- .
he received his ll.m .
from columbia law school in 1928 and was a sales analyst and accountant for a rubber company in akron , ohio , and dallas , texas , in 1916 and 1917 .
during the first world war he served as a first lieutenant with the thirty-fifth infantry , united states army , from 1917 to 1919 .
after the war , he continued work in the rubber industry , then became an assistant professor of military science and tactics at the university of iowa from 1921 to 1923 .
he was admitted to the iowa bar in 1927 and commenced practice in iowa city , of which he served as city solicitor from 1933 to 1935 and mayor from 1935 to 1937 .
in 1938 , martin was elected as a republican to the u.s. house of representatives , serving iowa 's 1st congressional district .
he was re-elected to the house seven consecutive times , serving from january 3 , 1939 , to january 3 , 1955 .
in 1954 , instead of running again for the house , martin ran for the u.s. senate .
he defeated incumbent senator guy m. gillette , who was then completing his second full term in the senate .
for the first time since 1924 , both of iowa 's senators , and all of its representatives , were republicans .
martin served from january 3 , 1955 , to january 3 , 1961 .
he retired after one term , moving to seattle , washington , where he died in june 1971 .
he was buried in willamette national cemetery , portland , oregon .
